Reference no: EM133474385

At the culmination of the investigation completed by The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (a.k.a. the 9/11 Commission), many different areas of concern were identified as being a deficient or outright failure when it came to identifying, tracking, and potentially disrupting the activities of those who had implemented the attacks. One of the main areas of deficiency noted was that related to information sharing within agencies at the federal, state, and local levels. Many argue that there was sufficient information to indicate an impending attack but that such information was not shared with the agencies or entities that could have prevented such attacks.

Our contemporary intelligence community operates in two basic worlds - one that focuses on criminal intelligence and one that focuses on national security intelligence. These two concepts are similar in some aspects but dynamically different in others.

1. What are two reasons that intelligence agencies (at any level) may not share information with one another?

2. What are the fundamental differences between criminal intelligence and national security intelligence? Why can or should these two types of intelligence not be co-mingled? What are the risks of doing so?