Homeland Security and Intelligence

✍ Scribed by Keith Gregory Logan

• Publisher: Praeger
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 256
• Series: Security International
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Few issues are as important—or as controversial. Homeland Security and Intelligence offers a series of articles written to inform readers about changes in homeland security intelligence, to explain the new structure of the intelligence community (IC), and to enable readers to question the effectiveness of the new intelligence processes. A brief history of intelligence in the United States covers past and current structures of the IC and the fundamentals of intelligence. There is an in-depth look at the new Fusion Centers and efforts to improve information-sharing among the federal, state, local, and private sectors. The book also addresses the critical questions of whether the IC is working as intended—and whether there is an effective system of checks and balance to govern it. Finally, there is an examination of issues that should be addressed for our future security. Each of the contributing authors draws on his unique experiences to provide the reader with a critical understanding of what has happened since 9/11 and where homeland security intelligence should be looking now.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction: Connecting the Dots......Page 12
PART I: HISTORY AND THE PROCESS OF INTELLIGENCE......Page 16
1 A History of U.S. Intelligence......Page 19
2 A Brief Look at the Intelligence Community......Page 47
3 Intelligence Fundamentals......Page 54
4 Intelligence Analysis: A 9/11 Case Study......Page 70
PART II: THE POST-9/11 INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY......Page 86
5 The Department of Homeland Security and Intelligence: Past, Present, and Future......Page 89
6 Military Intelligence......Page 108
7 Connecting Police Intelligence with Military and National Intelligence......Page 121
8 Private Security Intelligence and Homeland Security......Page 147
9 Foreign Intelligence and Counterterrorism: An Israeli Perspective......Page 157
PART III: HOMELAND SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE—DOES THE NEW STRUCTURE WORK?......Page 180
10 Congressional Oversight of U.S. Intelligence......Page 183
11 Assessing the Domestic Intelligence Model and Process......Page 195
12 Fusion Centers and Beyond: The Future of Intelligence Assessment in an Information-Deluged Era......Page 215
13 Disrupting Human Networks: Ancient Tools for Modern Challenges......Page 227
Epilogue......Page 240
C......Page 242
D......Page 243
I......Page 244
N......Page 245
P......Page 246
T......Page 247
Z......Page 248
About the Editor and Contributors......Page 250