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BusinessWeek June 28, 2004 Paul Magnusson	The Smart Way To Fix Intelligence From Pearl Harbor to the terrorist attacks of September 11, the lesson keeps being repeated: A dollar spent on identifying the threat and preventing the attack can be worth far more than the millions spent safeguarding targets or the billions spent cleaning up the aftermath.
National Defense June 2006 Harold Kennedy	Intelligence Sharing: `Still a Battle' According to the National Counterterrorism Center, despite efforts since 9/11 to improve the gathering and analysis of government and military intelligence, getting agencies to pool information is still difficult.
InternetNews March 20, 2008	Bush Picks Security Aide With Wiretap Background U.S. President George W. Bush named a Justice Department official with experience in terrorism wiretap programs as his White House homeland security adviser on Wednesday.
National Defense September 2007 Breanne Wagner	Reluctance to Share Information Hampers Counterterrorism Efforts As part of an ambitious plan to improve the flow of intelligence among law enforcement agencies, the U.S. government has set up several command centers where federal, state and local officials can share information.
Parameters Spring 2005 Saxby Chambliss	We Have Not Correctly Framed the Debate on Intelligence Reform Over the last decade, our intelligence community has failed us. It wasn't able to penetrate the al Qaeda terrorist organization, and we paid a high price for that failure.
National Defense January 2010 Stew Magnuson	DHS Intelligence Nominee to Revamp Beleaguered Office's Hiring Practices Caryn Wagner, nominee to be undersecretary for intelligence and analysis at the Department of Homeland Security, said she will try to improve the low morale, high turnover and slow hiring process at the organization.
Wired October 2009 Stephen Lee	Secret Ops, Domestic Spying OK -- As Long As Someone's Watching the Watchmen If the U.S. wants a successful intelligence agency, a certain amount of opacity is not only acceptable, it's necessary.
National Defense November 2010 Stew Magnuson	DHS Warns Local Law Enforcement Of New Homegrown Terrorist Threat The general consensus in the intelligence community is that the homegrown terrorist threat during the last year has supplanted plots that originate overseas.
National Defense June 2004 Harold Kennedy	Advisory Board Says Military Must Define Role in Homeland Defense The Pentagon needs to improve and integrate its maritime intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets with those of the Departments of Homeland Security and Transportation, CIA and FBI, according to a recent Defense Science Board study.
Parameters Summer 2006 Arthur C. Winn	The Future of US Intelligence The four books reviewed here address the future of US intelligence. However, each has a different focus: Countdown to Terror: The Top-Secret Information that Could Prevent the Next Terrorist Attack on America...and How the CIA has Ignored it by Curt Weldon... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2004	The 9/11 Report: Details of the central event of our time It's not the sophisticated sensors, signal processing, satellite communications, and automation technology that wins the day in the end; it's the people who use the technology that make the difference.
National Defense February 2005 Peter M. Steffes	New Rules for Clearances Included in Intel Reform The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004---which President Bush now is preparing to implement---mandates a comprehensive shake-up of the nation's intelligence community.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005	2005: The Year to Get a Handle on Terrorism Despite the compromise intelligence bill hammered out by Congress Dec. 7 and 8, the issue of coordinating this country's intelligence operations to tackle the issue of terrorism is far from resolved.
National Defense June 2004 Pappalardo & Erwin	Security Beat Law enforcement agencies, using grant money from the federal government, increasingly are investing in robots to prepare for domestic threats.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2006	U.S. market share lags global growth in homeland security Most of the discrepancy comes from strong demand from three regions -- the European, Indian, and Chinese markets.
Mother Jones Jan/Feb 2002 Ted Gup	Clueless in Langley For two decades, the CIA has been making excuses for why it has failed to tackle terrorism. Can a spy agency rooted in the Cold War adapt to a changed world?
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Hillary Clinton: Silicon Valley Should Help Fight ISIS Clinton hinted that Silicon Valley should lower encryption standards to make it easier for American intelligence agencies to monitor communications.
Information Today February 3, 2015 George H. Pike	New U.S. Laws Impact Information Gathering and Security Congress has not been the only branch of government acting in ways that could impact the information industry. The Supreme Court is continuing its recent trend of increased attention to patent and copyright issues.
National Defense July 2011 Stew Magnuson	Plan to Create Center To Thwart Domestic Bombings Falls Short A proposal to put under one roof representatives of government agencies that are involved in thwarting the use of explosives as weapons of terror in the United States has been scrapped.
National Defense February 2011 Stew Magnuson	Data Mining Not a Panacea for Catching Terrorists, Experts Warn Data mining is being used by federal agencies as a counter-terrorism tool.
National Defense October 2004 Joe Pappalardo	Pentagon Balking at Intel Reform Recommendations Pentagon officials are publicly questioning some of the recommendations made by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.
National Defense May 2011 Stew Magnuson	FBI Anticipates Terrorist Attacks on Soft Targets in the United States Brenda Heck, deputy assistant director of the agency's counterterrorism division, said an attack similar to the 2008 assault on hotels and other buildings in Mumbai, India, is possible here.
CIO May 15, 2003 Todd Datz	State to Share Data with FBI Information sharing is key to beefing up homeland security. As part of that initiative, the State Department will soon share its database of 50 million visa applications with the FBI.
CIO August 4, 2008 Thomas Wailgum	Inside the CIA's Extreme Technology Makeover, Part 1 Al Tarasiuk, the CIA's CIO, is on a mission to modernize the agency's IT practices and connections to the intelligence community. It's just like any other IT-business alignment project, except that he has to get disparate departments to share data while supporting the White House's war on terror.
Fast Company March 15, 2007 J.J. Brazil	Mission: Impossible? The FBI is battling to transform itself in an age of technology and terrorism. It may be the toughest, most important change effort of our time.
Reason December 2001	Guarding the Home Front Will civil liberties be a casualty in the War on Terrorism? A panel of experts discuss which civil liberties they think are most at risk in what has been called America's first 21st century war...
Salon.com June 12, 2000 Bruce Shapiro	The hyping of domestic terrorism Why a new report on the threat of international terrorist attacks on U.S. soil is a con job.
PC World September 12, 2001 Dan Verton	Next: Cyberterrorism? Security experts urge companies to guard against digital violence...
National Defense November 2014 Stew Magnuson	13 Years Later, Still a Ways to Go on Sharing Terrorist Threats With Public The government needs to have a clear communication strategy to combat misinformation and speculation.
InternetNews August 6, 2007 Roy Mark	Bush Signs Temporary Wiretap Law A new law allows government to conduct surveillance of foreign e-mails and phone calls without a warrant.
Reason November 2003	Show Us Your Money The USA PATRIOT Act lets the feds spy on your finances. But does it help catch terrorists?
PC World March 2002 Kim Zetter	Snoopware: New Technologies, Laws Threaten Privacy The FBI's 'Magic Lantern' keystroke logger could help catch terrorists, but at what cost to your fundamental rights?
National Defense March 2009 Charles Faddis	CIA Must Return To Its Roots To Become Effective Once Again Almost seven decades after the birth of this civilian intelligence agency, we need to go back to the beginning -- to a lean, flexible, imaginative organization trained and equipped to confront our nation's enemies.
National Defense June 2011 Stew Magnuson	When it Comes to Cybersecurity, the 'Who is Responsible for What?' Debate Continues Most experts seem to agree that the U.S. government's collective efforts to secure the Internet from large-scale attacks and other nefarious activities are lacking.
National Defense August 2006 Stew Magnuson	Former staffer becomes leading DHS critic Former Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Clark Kent Ervin has emerged in recent months as one of the department's leading critics, and one with some credibility.
Wired December 2001 John Arquilla & David Ronfeldt	Fighting The Network War Conventional military power stands little chance against a band of swarming 14th-century terrorists, according to the authors, RAND analysts who wrote the book on "netwar." Here's their five-point plan to tear apart the terror network...
National Defense August 2004 Joe Pappalardo	Securitybeat Congress Rejects Post-Disaster Continuity Amendment... Homeland Defense War Game Tests Interoperability... Truck Detector Test Program Underway in El Paso... Intelligence Center Collates Transportation Data... etc.
BusinessWeek June 13, 2005 Stan Crock	Decades Of Terror Blunders Timothy Naftali's, Blind Spot: The Secret History of American Counterterrorism, offers fascinating detail on why needed reforms were neglected over the decades.
PC World September 12, 2001 Joris Evers	Spy Technology: Too Little, Too Late? Echelon, other high-tech surveillance tools may not have been effective when needed...
Reason April 2004 Julian Sanchez	PATRIOT Spawn When a draft of the Domestic Security Enhancement Act, nicknamed PATRIOT II, was leaked last year, public outrage scuppered the proposal, but pieces are emerging elsewhere.
National Defense September 2010 Eric Beidel	Social Scientists and Mathematicians Join The Hunt for Terrorists Internet chat rooms and other online discussion forums supplement, and in some cases, have replaced mosques, community centers and coffee shops as meeting spots for jihadists, experts say.
Reason March 2006 Veronique de Rugy	Are We Ready for the Next 9/11? The sorry state -- and stunning waste -- of homeland security spending.
National Defense August 2007 Jessica Pearce	Documentary Aims to Boost Coast Guard's Public Image As the Coast Guard reels from criticism of its mishandling of the Deepwater acquisitions program, one filmmaker hopes to counteract that negative publicity and bring some positive exposure back to the service.
Fast Company February 2005 Jena McGregor	"The Imagination Was There" A former vice chair at Fannie Mae and the deputy attorney general under Janet Reno, Gorelick speaks about imagination, leadership, and the persistence of outdated mind-sets.
AskMen.com Craig Mazin	Top 10: Spy Agencies Many countries place great importance on the function of their intelligence/spy agencies. Intelligence failures can lead to terrible consequences, while successes can help countries avert unnecessary tragedies. Read on about the top 10 presently active spy agencies operating in the world today.
AskMen.com	Officials: CIA program targeted al-Qaida leaders A secret intelligence program canceled by CIA Director Leon Panetta in June was meant to find and then capture or kill al-Qaida leaders at close range.
PC World September 11, 2001 Dan Verton	Terrorist Attacks Shake U.S. Infrastructure Cyberspace may be clogged, but it's apparently not a target -- this time, experts say...
Parameters Spring 2007	Editor's Shelf A list of books that detail various views on the war on terrorism.
Salon.com February 1, 2002 Jeff Stein	Bin Laden's Olympic dreams Al-Qaida conducted "meticulous" surveillance of Salt Lake City, intelligence official says...
InternetNews May 21, 2004 Roy Mark	Democrats Call for Privacy Czar A new bill would mandate federal privacy officer to balance civil liberties with homeland security concerns.