ABSTRACT
The role of intelligence is to provide policy makers and other government officials with processed information (i.e., intelligence) that helps them perform their jobs better. This chapter focuses on intelligence intended to improve the US homeland security enterprise. Homeland security intelligence focuses on how intelligence can help counterterrorism (CT) efforts, where counterterrorism in this case refers primarily to efforts to detect terrorist plans for attacks against the US homeland. The chapter de-emphasizes the differences between criminal intelligence (CRINT)/law enforcement intelligence (LEINT) and other types of intelligence in the interest of presenting as coherent a picture of the overall CT intelligence enterprise as possible. It explores how the intelligence enterprise produces intelligence products to detect terrorist plans to attack the US homeland. The chapter provides an overview of the kinds of information networks intended to create and facilitate appropriate sharing while preserving the security of classified information.
