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The FBI And The FBI

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Moreover, state and local law enforcement agencies can provide support to USIC agencies involved in collecting information in the United States, particularly they can provide key support to the FBI. The FBI is the USIC agency that is responsible for leading the efforts in the collection of information about terrorists and other criminals within the United States (Schneider, 2015). The FBI has the capabilities to utilize confidential informants and undercover agents when it is deemed necessary to do so in order to collect information (Schneider, 2015). Moreover, the FBI has the ability of being able to work very close with their state and local law enforcement counterparts. This ability enhances the capabilities of the FBI because in some …show more content…

In other cases, if some of the information is made available to state and local agencies, it can take a while for them to be able to obtain that information. In these cases, by the time that state and local agencies obtain the information, it may already be too late to prevent a terrorist attack, which would make the information useless. While there is a need to keep some information in secrecy, if the information is not shared with the right people, then the information does not serves any purposes. When classified information is shared, there will always be a risk that it could be leaked by someone within the USIC. Similarly, if the information is not shared with important members and partners of the USIC, then there will always be a risk that a terrorist attack will not be prevented because some members and partners of the USIC were not aware of the information that was collected. Moreover, the FBI should make aware and provide information to state an local law enforcement agencies whenever they decide to stop an ongoing investigation of a suspect. Doing this can allow state and local law enforcement agencies to be able to monitor these suspects for a while in case that the FBI could not collect enough information and the suspects turn out to be terrorists or terrorist supporters.
Recommendation # 2: Homeland security officials should work

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