What are the capabilities and limitations of domestic intelligence efforts in supporting the homeland security enterprise? feeling that the U.S. is appropriately structured and resourced to adequately provide timely, accurate, and actionable domestic intelligence to support the entire spectrum of intelligence users from the Federal government down to state and local agencies?
Include an examination of the various elements that comprise U.S. domestic intelligence efforts and how those entities contribute to supporting the homeland security enterprise in collaboratively protecting American Citizens. In crafting a paper, it would be good to remember the lessons learned from the 9/11 Commission on the difficulties of getting various agencies from all three levels of government to collaborate as well as intelligence sharing lessons/recommendations.
Also, address the capability of the homeland security enterprise to adequately identify and address future challenges. In developing your response, you should address the challenges of providing for homeland security while maintaining civil liberties as well as emerging trends and patterns such as homegrown terrorism and the proliferation of communication encryption technologies.
Note: As mentioned earlier in this course, remember that (homeland security) is made up of much more than just DHS. That agency is only one part of a larger Homeland Security Enterprise that includes [DHS] Departmental leaders and components [the 7 field agencies including USCG, CBP, ICE, USSS, etc]. Also state, local, tribal, territorial, and private sector partners, and others, as well as many other essential federal agencies that play a role in HLS, such as the very important DOJ where the FBI is the lead agency for countering terrorism in the US (not DHS). Of importance in this paper is the role of the FBI as both a federal la