ABSTRACT
On the operational and epistemological domain, universities feature particularly strongly across the agencies in identifying related recruitment needs in knowledge terms for cross-disciplinary academic and research expertise. In addition to outreach, both official/governmental security and intelligence sources as well as universities, research establishments and think tanks provide analysis, commentary and critique on security and intelligence matters. Publicly facing national security and intelligence information demonstrates public outreach of which universities are a high priority across all four domains. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is responsible for providing national security intelligence to senior US policymakers. The CIA director is nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. Terrorism and Financial Intelligence marshals the Department’s intelligence and enforcement functions with the twin aims of safeguarding the financial system against illicit use and combating rogue nations, terrorist facilitators, weapons of mass destruction proliferators, money launderers, drug kingpins and other national security threats.
