Return-Path: <sentto-279987-4530-1014700924-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Mon, 25 Feb 2002 21:24:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 8626 invoked by uid 510); 26 Feb 2002 05:22:00 -0000 Received: from n7.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.57) by all.net with SMTP; 26 Feb 2002 05:22:00 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-4530-1014700924-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [216.115.97.163] by n7.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 26 Feb 2002 05:22:04 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 26 Feb 2002 05:22:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 93986 invoked from network); 26 Feb 2002 05:22:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m9.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 26 Feb 2002 05:22:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (12.232.72.152) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 Feb 2002 05:22:03 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g1Q5MAD00564 for iwar@onelist.com; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 21:22:10 -0800 Message-Id: <200202260522.g1Q5MAD00564@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 21:22:10 -0800 (PST) Subject: [iwar] [fc:New.agency.aims.to.improve.flow.of.anti-terror.information] Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit February 20, 2002 By Greg Seigle, Global Security Newswire <http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/d_index.html The Bush administration last week announced the creation of a new U.S. information agency designed to improve the flow of information among the various intelligence and law enforcement agencies involved in the war on terrorism. Details of the new agency remain scarce, but it is headed by former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, who holds a doctorate in information technology and has long pushed for greater data flow among pertinent agencies, officials said yesterday. The agency has several goals, among them to solve the cultural problem of getting secretive organizations such as the CIA, FBI and Defense Intelligence Agency to share information, officials said. Representatives from these organizations are currently "working like crazy" to create a new supercomputer system that would make it easier for them and the other 30 federal agencies that collect classified data to cull and share information, a U.S. official said last week. "It's not going as well as it could. We're looking for ways to improve," Special Assistant to the President Frank Cilluffo told Global Security Newswire after delivering a speech at a bioterrorism conference. "We are coming up with ways to fuse the information so as not to jeopardize the sources and methods," from which the data was obtained, Cilluffo said. "It's a push-pull process. There is no easy answer." A major hurdle, he said, is persuading the CIA, FBI and a host of other secretive agencies to not only open up and share information, but to understand each other's needs--hence, each other's cultures. Currently the Customs Service and other organizations on the front lines of the war on terrorism are not linked to the databases of the CIA--a gap the new agency wants to fill to prevent more terrorists from entering the United States. Getting the CIA, DIA and other intelligences agencies to work in harmony with the FBI, Customs and other law enforcement agencies is a difficult task due to their different mindsets, Cilluffo said. "One wants to string [suspects] up and the other wants to string them along," he said. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Tiny Wireless Camera under $80! Order Now! FREE VCR Commander! Click Here - Only 1 Day Left! http://us.click.yahoo.com/nuyOHD/7.PDAA/yigFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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