The Challenge of Domestic Intelligence in a Free Society. A Multidisciplinary Look at the Creation of a U.S. Domestic Counterterrorism Intelligence Agency

Abstract : In considering the potential creation of a new domestic intelligence agency, we approached the issue from a variety of directions, seeking insights that would help us understand the pros and cons of creating such an organization and describe different approaches for doing so. This research effort in a set of topical papers and analyses that address different parts of this policy issue and examine it from different perspectives. This volume presents the set of papers focused on the U.S. domestic context and approaches for understanding the decision to create a new domestic intelligence agency.