Sharing the Wealth-Coast Guard Law Enforcement Information Valuable to the National Intelligence Effort or How the Coast Guard Defeats the Wall
Army Lawyer, The › Nbr. 7/2008, July 2008
Linked as:
Summary
The 9/11 Commission Report identified information sharing paucity within and between agencies of the federal government as a critical gap in the "back office" side of government operations.1 Other commissions have identified the need to improve information sharing,2 and Congress has passed several provisions that enable greater sharing of specific types of information.3 Recognizing that information sharing is sometimes challenging but always rewarding, the Coast Guard has provided clear guidance enabling the sharing of information obtained during law enforcement and other operations with the national intelligence community. Responsive to Legal and Policy Mandates The mandated information sharing requirements found in the USA PATRIOT ACT,31 and the Homeland Security Act of 200232 are at the core of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the intelligence community, the federal law enforcement agencies, and the Department of Homeland Security.33 This MOU also relies on two attorney general memoranda34 that implement sections of the USA PATRIOT Act.
See the full content of this document
Extract
Sharing the Wealth-Coast Guard Law Enforcement Information Valuable to the National Intelligence Effort or How the Coast Guard Defeats the Wall
The 9/11 Commission Report identified information sharing paucity within and between agencies of the federal government as a critical gap in the "back office" side of government operations.1 Other commissions have identified the need to improve information sharing,2 and Congress has passed several provisions that enable greater sharing of specific types of information.3 Recognizing that information sharing is sometimes challenging but always rewarding, the Coast Guard has provided clear guidance enabling the sharing of information obtained during law enforcement and other operations with the national intelligence community. Likewise, this guidance enables intelligence originating from the intelligence community to be shared w...
See the full content of this document
Sponsored links
