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What the 9/11 Commission Got Wrong ...(Cutting-Edge Commentary on Public Policy: THE FIRST BOOK IN THE NEW HOOVER STUDIES IN POLITICS, ECONOMICS, AND SOCIETY SERIES)(Preventing Surprise Attacks: Intelligence Reform in the Wake of 9/11)(Book Review)
In a searing critique, Richard Posner's new book Preventing Surprise Attacks identifies the issues overlooked by the 9/11 Commission and Congress, exposes the pitfalls created by new terrorism legislation, and suggests directions for real reform.
In a misguided quest for unanimity, a determination to use the political calendar, and a public relations campaign to force precipitate action on weakly supported proposals for far-reaching organizational change, the 9/11 Commission, abetted by a stampeded Congress, a politically cornered president, and a press that failed to subject the Commission's recommendations to the searching scrutiny that the modern press reserves for scandals, disserved the cause of national security in a dangerous era. It did so by successfully promoting a bureaucratic reorganization that is more likely to be a recipe for bureaucratic infighting, impacted communication, diminished performance, tangled lines of command, and lowered morale than an improvement on the previous system.
It may, moreover, induce ...
- Hoover Institution: Preventing Surprise Attacks: Intelligence Reform in the...
- Press release article from: Business Wire March 24, 2005 700+ words
...STANFORD, Calif. -- In Preventing Surprise Attacks: Intelligence Reform...President Clinton (1999). Preventing Surprise Attacks is part of a series of...Hoover Institution. Preventing Surprise Attacks: Intelligence Reform...
- Posner, Richard A. Preventing Surprise Attacks: Intelligence Reform in the Wake...
- Magazine article from: Library Journal Puro, Steven June 15, 2005 700+ words
* Posner, Richard A. Preventing Surprise Attacks: Intelligence Reform in the Wake of 9/11. Rowman...adaptability of intelligence decisions. Posner finds that surprise attacks follow a predictable pattern and questions whether expected...
- Pearl Harbor survivors find new meaning for surprise attacks.(Knight Ridder...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Burnes, Brian December 6, 2001 700+ words
KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ On Sept. 11, Harold Cline was in a Blue Springs, Mo., hospital bed, watching the surprise attacks on New York and Washington on his room's television. The explosions and flames looked familiar. "I could hardly talk...
- Taiwan anti-terror drill simulates surprise attacks by Chinese operatives.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire August 25, 2005 700+ words
...Kong newspaper South China Morning Post website on 25 August Taiwan yesterday held an anti-terrorism drill simulating surprise attacks by mainland terrorists demanding cross-strait talks and the release of jailed gangsters. More than 500 people took part...
- Ugandan army on alert for "surprise" attacks from DRCongo rebels.
- Newspaper article from: BBC Monitoring International Reports January 23, 2006 700+ words
...near Rutshuru. Meanwhile, Kiconco has said the Uganda government has deployed on the western border to fence off any surprise attacks. "When we look at the eastern Congo, threats from PRA, ADF/NALU and other destabilizing forces have been there for...
- Pearl Harbor survivors find new meaning for surprise attacks.
- News wire article from: Kansas City Star December 6, 2001 700+ words
...Brian Burnes KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ On Sept. 11, Harold Cline was in a Blue Springs, Mo., hospital bed, watching the surprise attacks on New York and Washington on his room's television. The explosions and flames looked familiar. "I could hardly talk...
- Jihad militant threatens "surprise" attacks on Israeli forces.
- Newspaper article from: BBC Monitoring International Reports January 5, 2009 700+ words
At 1748 gmt on 5 January, Doha Al-Jazeera Television in Arabic carries a live telephone interview with Abu-Mujahid, spokesman for the Al-Quds Brigades, to comment on the current developments in the Gaza Strip. Abu-Mujahid says that he will begin with the following part of a Koranic verse: "To those
- Soldiers in Afghanistan always on alert for skirmishes, surprise attacks.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Garcia, Malcolm April 25, 2003 700+ words
Byline: Malcolm Garcia KANDAHAR, Afghanistan _ Most days they wait for war. Other days war comes to them. They just never know when. Soldiers with the 82nd Airborne Division serving in the quick reaction force at Kandahar Air Base have learned how to be patient and anxious at the same time. "There
- When travelling over difficult ground, watch for surprise attacks.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire August 29, 2004 700+ words
(From Business Line) IT WAS about a year ago (August 3, 2003) this column started with Curtis J. Montgomery's Sun Tzu on Investing, a 2500-year old war guide to devise strategies for dynamic investments. The old master seems to be stopping by while on orbit, because what I have on hand is Dean
- Undisclosed flaws undermine IT defenses: users, analysts say companies need to...
- Magazine article from: Computerworld Vijayan, Jaikumar November 6, 2006 700+ words
Attacks targeting software vulnerabilities that haven't been publicly disclosed pose a silent and growing problem for corporate IT. But responses to such threats have been largely misguided because of misconceptions about them, according to some analysts and security vendors. So-called zero-day
Source: HighBeam Research, What the 9/11 Commission Got Wrong ...(Cutting-Edge Commentary on...