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Reorganizing U.S. Domestic Intelligence: Assessing the Options
Aug 11, 2008
A Multidisciplinary Look at the Creation of a U.S. Domestic Counterterrorism Intelligence Agency
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The U.S. Domestic Intelligence Enterprise
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Whether U.S. terrorism-prevention efforts match the threat continues to be central in policy debate. Part of this debate is whether the United States needs a dedicated domestic counterterrorism intelligence agency. To inform future policy decisionmaking, this book examines, from a variety of perspectives, the policy proposal that such an agency be created. These include its possible capabilities, comparing its potential effectiveness with that of current efforts, and its acceptability to the public, as well as various balances and trade-offs involved in creating such an agency. Reflecting the limits in the data available and the significant uncertainty associated with this policy area, if there is a unifying message from the study, it is one of caution and deliberation. In an area in which direct assessment and analysis are limited, there is a need to carefully consider the implications and potential outcomes of such significant policy changes. In doing so, examination from different perspectives and through different approaches — to ideally capture a sufficient picture of the complexity to see not just the benefits we hope to gain from policy change but the layers of effects and interactions that could either help or hurt the chances of those benefits appearing — is a critical ingredient of policy deliberation and design.
Chapter One
Introduction
Chapter Two
The History of Domestic Intelligence in the United States: Lessons for Assessing the Creation of a New Counterterrorism Intelligence Agency
Chapter Three
Current Domestic Intelligence Efforts in the United States
Chapter Four
Societal Acceptability of Domestic Intelligence
Chapter Five
The Law and the Creation of a New Domestic Intelligence Agency in the United States
Chapter Six
Weighing Organizational Models for a New Domestic Intelligence Agency
Chapter Seven
Privacy and Civil Liberties Protections in a New Domestic Intelligence Agency
Chapter Eight
Exploring Measures of Effectiveness for Domestic Intelligence: Addressing Questions of Capability and Acceptability
Chapter Nine
Exploring the Utility for Considering Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Domestic Intelligence Policy Change
Chapter Ten
Conclusion
This research was sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security and was conducted jointly under the auspices of the Homeland Security Program within RAND Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment and the Intelligence Policy Center of the National Security Research Division.
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