HSINT and State, Local and Tribal Authorities

Answer the following question:

Based on the reading and perhaps your own professional or academic experience,
What are the strengths and weaknesses of a distributed homeland security intelligence production (a federal system with independent and largely "sovereign" state, local, tribal, even private sector security agencies?

Reading Material:
Connor, The Integration of Homeland Security and Law Enforcement
Dept of Justice, The Attorney General’s Guidelines For FBI National Security Investigations and Foreign Intelligence Collection
Freedman, The Politics of Warning
Best, Sharing Law Enforcement and Intelligence Information: The Congressional Role

Riley, Treverton, Wilson, Davis, State and Local Intelligence in the War on Terrorism
Fuentes, Practical Guide to Intelligence Led-Policing

Audio/Video
Defending the City: NYPD’s Counterterrorism Operations Featuring Richard Falkenrath (28:10)
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