bull;Preface bull;Abbreviations bull;Figures and Tables bull;Chapter One What is Intelligence? bull;Defining Intelligence bull;Evolution bull;Limitations bull;Significance bull;Conclusion: Towards a Theory of Intelligence bull;Chapter Two How Do We Understand Intelligence? bull;Introduction bull;The Critique of Positivism bull;The Challenge of Postmodernism bull;Critical Realism: Neither Positivist nor Postmodernist bull;Agency and Structure bull;Surveillance: Knowledge and Power bull;Conclusion: a Map for Theorising and Researching Intelligence bull; bull;Chapter Three Who Does Intelligence? bull;Introduction: Security Networks bull;Mapping Intelligence Networks bull;State sector bull;Corporate sector bull;Communitarian sector bull;Cross-sectoral networks bull;Making Security Networks Work bull;Conclusion bull;Chapter Four How Do They Gather Information? bull;Introduction bull;Planning and Direction bull;Open Sources bull;Secret Sources bull;HUMINT: human intelligence bull;SIGINT: signals intelligence bull;IMINT: imagery intelligence bull;HUMINT Vs. SIGINT: The Post-9/11 Debate bull;Gathering and Hunting: an erosion of boundaries? bull;The Predator: a vision of the future? bull;Extraordinary rendition bull;Conclusion bull;Chapter Five What Do They Do With the Information Gathered? bull;Introduction bull;Analysis bull;'No good will come of this. ls" Problems with Dissemination bull;Where intelligence Turns into Action: the Intensification of Surveillance bull;Conclusion bull;Chapter Six Why Does Intelligence Fail? bull;Introduction bull;The Limits of Intelligence bull;Failure Located in Collection and Analysis bull;The Policy Maker-Intelligence Interface as a Site of Intelligence Failure bull;Politicisation of Intelligence bull;The 9/11 Commission Report: Explaining Intelligence Failure? bull;The 7 July 2005 London Bombings: An Intelligence Failure? bull;Conclusion bull;Chapter Seven Iraqi WMD: What Kind of Intelligence Failure? bull;Introduction bull;US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence bull;The Butler Inquiry bull;Political pressure on the JIC bull;Australian Inquiries bull;Conclusion bull;Chapter Eight Can Intelligence be Democratic? bull;Introduction bull;Defining Control, Review and Oversight bull;The Legal and Ethical Bases of Oversight bull;Organising External Oversight bull;Parliamentary Oversight: the Case of the UK bull;Extra-Parliamentary Oversight bull;Media, NGOs and citizens bull;Conclusion bull;Chapter Nine Intelligence for a More Secure World? bull;Bibliography bull;Index.