Homeland Security Act of 2002

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What are the strengths and weaknesses of a distributed Homeland Security Intelligence production? Homeland Security is everyone working together is a concerted national effort by federal, states and all local governments, private sectors and all citizens in order to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, reduce America’s vulnerability to terrorism, and minimizing the damaged and recovering from any type of attack that does occur (Connor 2006). What that means is that homeland security is not a federal effort but partnership. State, local, and tribal law enforcement play a significant role in homeland security, and their intelligence functions support their hometown and the nation. After the terrorist attack of 9/11 several criticized the intelligence community for failing to warn about the terrorist attacks. The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) was one of the main agencies criticized mainly for not focusing on the domestic terrorist threat, collecting useful intelligence, analyzing strategic intelligence or sharing intelligence internally and with other members of the intelligence community. The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks report identified that the failure of the United States intelligence Community to share information in being a problem and identified that intelligence is the first line of defense in our nation’s security and recommended integration of all domestic and foreign sources of intelligence resulting in the creation of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorist Prevention Act of 2004 (IRTPA). The IRTPA established the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to oversee the intelligence community and facilitate the exchange of information with the community. It also redefined national intelligence to include foreign intelligence, domestic intelligence and homeland security intelligence. Also

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