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
Looking from a management perspective, one of the first steps is to ensure there is a clear objective, and mission in mind. After analyzing this article, it is clear that in relation to this event it appeared the FBI had no mission statement, therefore, causing confusion for all the personnel involved. Moreover, the confusion may have led to the deployment of 100 armed agents as well as, the use
2). Domestic terrorism is usually committed by citizens of the United States, and documentation of terrorist activities on American soil have dated back to the 1950s. The 1970s heighten domestic terrorism by a “rash of skyjacking”, that is, taking a commercial airline hostage (Sauter & Carafano, 2012). Skyjacking incidents compelled the FBI and CIA to develop undercover strategies to enforce terrorist groups; however, these tactics lead to civil right violations. The federal agencies covert tactics and aggressive intelligence collection, “prompted congressional hearings and led to dramatic restrictions on domestic intelligence operations, including the creation of a bureaucratic wall between intelligence gathering and law enforcement” (Sauter & Carafano, 2012, p. 25). The “wall” that was previously stated halted information sharing between the intelligence community and local law enforcement. Communication and information sharing prevents redundancy in high priority investigations, and it could also provide first responders advance notice in life threatening
The mission of the Federal Bureau of Investigations or the FBI for short is to protect the citizens of the United States and to uphold the Constitution in which the United States was founded upon. The FBI ensures the protection of civil liberties of citizens, fights transnational as well as national criminal organizations and enterprises, and combats significant white-collar and violent crimes. America has been fighting terrorism since the early 1920’s when the Islamic brotherhood was formed, so it is no surprise that there is a relatively lengthy number of wanted terrorists listed on the FBI’s most wanted page. One of those terrorists being Abdul Rahman Yasin, who is suspected in participation of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
The 9/11 commission clearly identified a problem with communication between the Intelligence Community and State and Local Law Enforcement which resulted in a new edict (from the IRTPA) of Information Sharing yet clearance levels and accesses quickly became an issue in disseminating information to those with a need to know. To help bridge this gap, the Homeland Security Act of 2002 was passed to crate the DHS by bringing 22 under its umbrella with a primary mission of protecting the homeland from terrorism (Blum, 2010). To do so, DHS’s key mission is to collect, analyze, and disseminate key/related information and share it with the IC and nontraditional partners (state/local governments as well as the private sector) (Blum, 2010). Likewise,
In the midst of July 2006, the NSB established a WMD Directorate to assimilate distributed components within the FBI. Besides, terrorist screening center was provided by the NSB, and this effort resulted in critical criminal intelligence and enlightening others agencies such as local law enforcements; specifically, significant Detainee Interrogation group. Also, interagency body and the collection of information on high-value terror suspects in thwarting violence against the U.S and allies around the world. Moreover, “merging the FBI’s national security workforce and mission under one leadership umbrella enhances our contribution to the national intelligence effort and allows us to leverage resources from our intelligence community (IC), Federal, state, local, tribal, private, and foreign partners”(FBI.GOV/NSB).
Prior to 9/11 the security of the United States was “across more than 40 federal agencies and an estimated 2,000 separate Congressional appropriations accounts”. (DHS History Office ,2017, p.4). This was a huge issue when it came to sharing intelligence. This was perhaps one of the many reasons that the terrorist of 9/11 were so successful. Shortly after 9/11, the United States found its self in need of an all-encompassing organization that shared information under one roof that enabled better protection of its infrastructure and its people at home, not just abroad. Shortly over a year later, in November 2002, Congress passed the “Homeland Security Act” (DHS.gov, 2017, para.2). With the creation of homeland security came conflict
In the United States we have several different departments to help control the crime rates throughout the country, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Police forces in the states. There are many criminal justice units in the United States and the FBI and State Police Forces are only two of them. These people wake up and risk their lives every day for work, while trying to get criminals off the street and save more lives. Although both the FBI and the State Police Forces are very important both are also very different and similar in many ways.
Good evening to all. I hope all is well this week. As many of you have stated, I thought I had a descent grasp of the United States Intelligence oversight. However, to my surprise I found that I actually did not have as good of an understanding as I thought. My shortcoming was in understanding just how convoluted the system is. The system has evolved over the years just as many things do. However, the system still has a long way to go before it’s as effective as it could be. Former Under Secretary Charles Allen noted that “virtually any terrorist attack on the homeland that one can imagine must exploit a border crossing, a port of entry, a critical infrastructure, or one of the other domains that the department has an obligation to
All under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In the Domestic Terrorism Program the FBI is the lead federal enforcement agency. Watching over the fight against terrorism in the United States. The Terrorism Program investigates any threats involving atomic energy, weapons of mass destruction, sabotage, hostage-taking and civil unrest. The FBI has a National Foreign Intelligence which overseas the U.S. Intelligence Community. Its task is preventing foreign espionage, and espionage on the U.S. economy. Investigating counterintelligence cases within the United States borders.
Have you ever wondered who helped keep our country safe? It is the Federal Bureau Investigation. Federal Bureau Investigation, is also known as the FBI. The FBI is an investigating team. The FBI has history, investigating, and has numerous facts.
FBI is an organization that deals with the investigation of the criminal cases in different levels. Since its foundation, many efforts have been made to make this organization the leading one and increase the net of the offices in many cities. Nowadays, this is a well-known organization with a complex structure, the head of which is appointed by the US President. The present paper is devoted to the discussion of the FBI, its history and present day activity.
Counterintelligence (CI) involves actions aimed at protecting the United States against foreign intelligence operations and espionage from penetration and disruption by hostile nations or their intelligence services (Lowenthal, 2014). Three main components of Counterintelligence include collection, defensive and offensive. Collection is ability to gather intelligence information about rivalry capabilities against own nation; defensive part of CI involve measures to prevent and thwarting other nations attempts to penetration into own nations intelligence system; while offensive deal with running double agents to penetrate, manipulate, exploit, and control targeted adversaries. CI is said to be the most essential aspect of the intelligence disciplines, in the sense that collecting vast quantities of secret information and produce excellent analysis of the intelligence, but ineffective counterintelligence measures may diminish confidence the final results (Van Cleave, 2013). According to Federal Bureau of Investigation (2011) “Significant advances have been made in clarifying and rectifying intelligence gaps and requirements through the formation of liaison and working relationships with other U.S. intelligence community agencies, foreign partners, the private sector, and academia”. For instance, since 2001, FBI CI program has resulted to total arrests of 249, of which 46 of them were linked to espionage. Counterintelligence (CI)
In the 21st century, the world as we know it suffers from psychotic, demented, treacherous and, sophisticated crimes. This world would be corrupt without a tunnel of light if it was not for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, also known as the FBI, is a corporation that seeks fidelity, bravery and, integrity for the United States of America. The FBI researches shocking and concerning crimes the news reports about politics, war and, safety that we hear on the television about issues that are being reported to the people. These cases of transgression are missions the FBI analyzes, such as hacking information from double spies, locating terrorists, seeking pedophiles, cracking down unknown mobsters,
The attack on the World Trade Center was not the first attack and was not the first time the US Intelligence Community had heard of Al-Qaeda or Osama Bin Laden. The role of counterintelligence from both sides the US and Al-Qaeda, lent to the information flow not only form the attackers but also to the ones who would ultimately respond. The FBI, the CIA, the DIA, have integral parts in these series of events from the information collection to the information flow. In a time where it was realized that Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism have a similar need, as well as information sharing across agencies, have led to the CI and IC we see today.
Intelligence collection and apprehension of criminals have occurred for many years; however, with the exception of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, these actions were performed by different organizations. Nonetheless, roles and responsibilities have changed since the attacks on September 11, 2001. Intelligence-led policing and the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing program were incorporated, and fusion centers were established to help gather intelligence from different levels of the government. Although law enforcement at the local, state, and tribal levels aid in intelligence collection, it is important to ensure that intelligence gathered to protect national security and law enforcement