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Intelligence Sharing Essential for Preventing Terrorist Attacks

Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment: A Progress Report on Information Sharing for Homeland Security

  • “Christopher Cox (R-CA) opened this morning’s Subcommittee hearing on information sharing for homeland security, what he called “an indispensable part of this Committee’s oversight responsibilities. “We want to be reassured that DHS, in particular, has engaged its non-Federal government counterparts as equal partners in the homeland security enterprise,” Cox advised. “We want to know that there are now mutually satisfactory mechanisms to enable the two-way flow of information to and from DHS and its State, local, and tribal government partners. That, in itself, would be real progress.” [Link to statement, PDF]
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