GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: U.S. and EU Launch Negotiations for Counter-Terrorism Information Exchange

 

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Department of Homeland Security

30March2011 11:02amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: On March 28, 2011, the European Union and the United States opened negotiations on an agreement to protect personal information exchanged in the context of fighting crime and terrorism. The negotiations will build on our long-standing, robust cooperation and agreements in this area. The United States and the European Union are committed to ensuring a high level of protection of personal information, while fighting crime and terrorism. The United States and the European Union are strongly determined to reach, without delay, an agreement that will advance our mutual goals. (read full report)

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: New Policing Strategies Creating Challenges

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: HS Today

11February2011 9:51amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Radical changes in methods, strategies and technologies of policing necessitate the forging of new relationships between police and communities, according to a new study by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), titled  The Changing Environment for Policing, 1985-2008.
 
“Not only are changes occurring in the environment that may affect the structure of policing but police themselves are in the process of changing the way they work,” the report explains, noting that the factors driving this are the threat of terrorism, intelligence- led policing and DNA analysis.
 
While these developments have helped drive a significant decrease in violent crime over the past two decades, according to the report, each has also transfered initiative in directing operations to specialists who collect and analyze information and away from both general-duties police and the public.
 
 “Ironically,” the report notes, “ these changes could undo the signature contribution of the 1980s — community policing. “
 
A focus on counterterrorism, for example, centralizes decision making, shifting it upward in police organizations and making it less transparent.
 
“In the aftermath of Sept. 11,”  the report says, “a new emphasis has been placed on the development of covert intelligence gathering, penetration and disruption. In the United States, the development of covert counterterrorism capacity has been unequally distributed, being more pronounced in larger police forces. Where it occurs, important questions arise about legal accountability as well as operational payoff.” (read full report)

 

 

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Clapper says al Qaeda is top threat to United States

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: The Washington Times

10February2011 2:15pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid criticism that intelligence services missed the signs of Arab revolt in Tunisia and Egypt, the nation’s top intelligence official will tell Congress that the threat from al Qaeda and its affiliates remains his No. 1 priority, U.S. officials said.

In testimony scheduled Thursday before the House Intelligence Committee, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper will stress that counterterrorism to keep Americans safe is the focus of the intelligence community, according to one of those officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss matters of intelligence.

Mr. Clapper is expected to defend how the intelligence community tracked the revolts that have swept through two major American allies in the Arab world, toppling the leader of Tunisia and threatening the regime in Egypt, the officials said. (read full report)

 

 

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