1.Analyze and discuss the intelligence support needed to HLS to prevent terrorism.
             Homeland security needs an all-encompassing and single point clearing house for intelligence services and support. The centralized requirement will ensure that the "big picture" is always clear, and informing the big picture, the details are collected and collated from the various intelligence units. The establishment of the Department of Homeland Security (DNS) is a good starting point because the United States now has an organization with over 20 federal entities that can focus on "three national security priorities: preventing terrorist attacks within the United States; reducing America's vulnerability to terrorism; and minimizing the damage and facilitating the recovery from attacks that do occur (The White House, 2006)." Aside from the establishment of the DHS, intelligence support can now be achieved with the reorganization of the American Intelligence community "endowed with expanded budgetary, acquisition, tasking, and personnel authorities to integrate more effectively the efforts of the Community into a more unified, coordinated, and effective whole (The White House, 2006.)
             2.Describe and assess the intelligence available before the 9/11 attack.
             There is "intelligence per se" available before the 9/11 attack and there are different agencies with the intelligence mandate. However, the intelligence situation then was like "the right hand did not know what the left hand was doing." There was internal compartmentalization between agencies thus; the big intelligence picture was not clear as a result of each intelligence-mandated agency holding a piece of the puzzle or mosaic. As a point of policy, "terrorism was not the overriding national security concern for the U.S. government under either the Clinton or the pre-9/11 Bush administration. The policy challenges were linked to this failure...