Terrorism Information Sharing

Information sharing among difference agencies was not done among the local, national and international law enforcement agencies prior to the September 11 attacks; consequence of the terror act prompt the needs for information sharing among different agencies as a tool to help counter and combat terrorism. Department of homeland security host the web based data exchange plate form for the information sharing among the different law enforcements agencies." The constantly evolving national security threat requires an adaptable information sharing strategy"(FBI,2012) As terrorists keep evolving different method to carry out their plot, information sharing adaptation to such threats is prominent as to help prevent, detect, counter and combat such
JTTF participate have the ability to access all threats information and share specific information with relevant state and local agencies. Human Intelligence(HUMINT) is also another method used to disseminate information to local, national and international law enforcement agencies. Its used dominantly by state s level for information sharing as these help to gather information about terrorists. These strategies put in place after the September 11 attacked as been active and working though they have been some lone wolf attacked to the United States it has also uncover sever plot against the United States as well, like the Los Angeles bombing plot where terrorist attempted to use robbery to fund their campaign. Sharing information to local and law enforcement agencies as not be so unified till the aftermath of the September 11