Richard A. Posner is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. He is the author of hundreds of articles and nearly four dozen books, including Preventing Surprise Attacks (2005), Public Intellectuals (2002), Breaking the Deadlock (2001), and An Affair of State (1999). He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Crisply written, knowledgeable, and cant-free, [Posner's] Uncertain Shield: The U.S. Intelligence System in the Throes of Reform combines common sense and the more uncommon insights of 'organizational theory' to describe the way intelligence works—and sometimes doesn't.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 1. How the Intelligence Reform Act Evolved from the 9/11 Commission's ReportChapter 3 2. Critical Overkill: The Report of the Commission on Weapons of Mass DestructionChapter 4 3. The 2005 Reorganization of the U.S. Intelligence SystemChapter 5 4. The Crisis in Domestic IntelligenceChapter 6 5. Forming a Security Intelligence ServiceChapter 7 6. Automation WoesChapter 8 7. Congress's Role in Intelligence I: The Issue of Presidential PrerogativeChapter 9 8. Congress's Role in Intelligence II: Legislative OversightChapter 10 Conclusion

Richard A. Posner is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. He is the author of hundreds of articles and nearly four dozen books, including Preventing Surprise Attacks (2005), Public Intellectuals (2002), Breaking the Deadlock (2001), and An Affair of State (1999). He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Crisply written, knowledgeable, and cant-free, [Posner's] Uncertain Shield: The U.S. Intelligence System in the Throes of Reform combines common sense and the more uncommon insights of 'organizational theory' to describe the way intelligence works—and sometimes doesn't.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 1. How the Intelligence Reform Act Evolved from the 9/11 Commission's ReportChapter 3 2. Critical Overkill: The Report of the Commission on Weapons of Mass DestructionChapter 4 3. The 2005 Reorganization of the U.S. Intelligence SystemChapter 5 4. The Crisis in Domestic IntelligenceChapter 6 5. Forming a Security Intelligence ServiceChapter 7 6. Automation WoesChapter 8 7. Congress's Role in Intelligence I: The Issue of Presidential PrerogativeChapter 9 8. Congress's Role in Intelligence II: Legislative OversightChapter 10 Conclusion