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Richard A. Posner

Richard A. Posner is judge of the 7th Court of Appeals, professor of law at the Chicago University and author of Preventing Surprise Attacks: Intelligence Reform in the Wake of 9/11 published by the Hoover Institution.

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“Danger in ‘Fixing’ CIA”

by Richard A. Posner

9 June 2005

Our intelligence service’s failure to detect the September 11 terrorist conspiracy and finding that Saddam Hussein did not posses any mass destruction weapons called forth the criticism of our service and led to reorganize the intelligence service. However, there is no need for excesses or (...)