Summary
Established by the 2004 intelligence reform law, the Information Sharing Environment (ISE) is a composite of policies, procedures and technologies that fosters the flow of information about terrorism. Participants include federal, state, local, tribal and private sector entities. The idea, as ISE head Thomas McNamara describes it, is to prevent the next terrorist attack through strength in numbers. In the ISE McNamara envisions, officials would create a report that state authorities could examine. Then they would compare that report to any similar ones from local inspectors in San Francisco. The intelligence community is working together enormously more effectively than five years ago, but not nearly as well as they ought to be, he says.
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"Ted McNamara is a son of a bitch."
So said Pablo Escobar, the infamous Colombian drug lord, after surrendering to authorities in 1991. McNamara was the U.S. ambassador at the time and was trying to ...See the full content of this document
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