INTELLIGENCE REFORM

Intelligence Reform

Intelligence Reform

Introduction

The growing resentment against the United States policies resulted in the tragic incident of 9/11 incident. The September incident also marked the beginning of militant era amongst the nations of the world. These incidents, if un-checked, would bring havoc and destruction and untold miseries to millions of people around the world. There is now a greater need on the part of the United States and the United Nations to closely look into ills of the comity of the nations and redress them with equity and justice.

The grim situation of the world can be tackled if the all the nations sincerely work together for world peace and removing of all the grievances of the nations. This can be done if the divine injunctions of Almighty God are implemented and carried out in to-to.

The evidence confirming U.S. and allied security awareness of and possible complicity in the 9/11 attack is considerable, but it is found to have no evidence disconfirming it. The principal reason against is the assumption that it is impossible that the U.S. national security apparatus would ever permit such a mass killing of Americans on U.S. soil, but this assumption itself is shaky given that Pearl Harbor itself was likely known about in advance, and non-defensive wars since have sacrificed tens of thousands of U.S. citizens for so-called "foreign policy and national security objectives". The pervasive Echelon surveillance apparatus and the most sophisticated intelligence machinery ever built is unlikely not to have eavesdropped on some of the very complicated organization and plans across states and boundaries for the multi-site hijacking of planes from major security structures across the U.S. especially since the suicide pilots were trained as pilots in the U.S., and the World Trade Center had already been bombed in 1993 by Afghan ex-allies of the CIA (JIICA, 2002).

Intelligence before 911

Actionable intelligence is essential for preventing acts of terrorism. The timely and thorough analysis and dissemination of information about terrorists and their activities will improve the government's ability to disrupt and prevent terrorist acts and to provide useful warning to the private sector and our population.

Homeland Security policy was severely underdeveloped prior to the attack of 9/11 to say the least. Numerous attacks had occurred in the past, but the events failed to grasp the full attention of policy stakeholders or even the American public. The overseas bombings affected only a few people in the US, and the World Trade Center bombing, although it was significant, in its attempt to destroy the building was unsuccessful. The event came to be viewed as 'international terrorists can try to destroy the United States but they will be unsuccessful' and that international terrorist attacks were unlikely.

Many assumed that the CIA and FBI already had stringent measures in place to protect against any such terrorist threat, which it obviously did not. Possible reason contributing to a lack of policy change was due to the policy monopoly over Homeland Security maintained by the Department of ...