Therefore, the national security and intelligence policy aims at re-organizing homeland security and intelligence systems for different national entities and private sector. However, these policies do not stipulate the activities the communities will implement in an effort to provide national security (McCormack 57). While the national security and intelligence policy call for local and state entities to be linked to the efforts of national security and intelligence, the policies have failed to envision that national security and intelligence are being controlled by federal entities. This means that local, state, and federal intelligence officials must share information amongst themselves for the purpose of attaining national security and maintaining intelligence at all levels (Cumming 69). The national security and intelligence policies are more explicit on the role of local, state, and elements of private sector. It puts more emphasis that national security must be a shared responsibility. The policy highlights that collaboration is fundamental in national security and intelligence. It highlights the process involved in identifying, uncovering, and locating terrorism activities: this is the primary goal of the policy. The policy specifies ways in which the government and private sector are supposed to contribute to national security and intelligence, (Marting, 120). Further, it highlights the importance of an integrated environment of sharing information that provides support for sharing information regarding terrorism activities. The policy has paid some defined attention to the sharing of information pertaining to terrorism activities. In its implementation, the policy has directed the arms of the government to undertake the following initiatives:

A. Create procedures within departments to analyze and review information gathered by the local and private sectors:...

Evaluate how the government elements are utilizing national security information on how they participate in sharing of intelligence information
C. Ensure that a threat Assessment Groups designed for the purpose of bringing together local and state law enforcement to work together with intelligence analysis on countering terrorism.

National security and intelligence policy could be perceived to be an activity of the federal government. Geographical elements are not applicable to this policy. This is because federal entities that are involved in national security and intelligence may gather directly or indirectly, information outside the state (McCormack, 117). The federal government has created offices in over 200 countries. The offices are responsible for gathering criminal information through liaising openly with law enforcement counterparts at the international level. The policy provides an approach by which the federal government must follow in its activities as the statutory law commands. Thus, only a few of its agencies have been allowed to engage in intelligence activities at the domestic level. However, critics of the national security and intelligence policy argue that the policy appears to be parochial. Further, they state that their arguments are based on the idea that the policy discounts the importance of national security and intelligence roles of non-federal members (Marting 137).

Works Cited

McCormack, Wayne. Understanding the Law of Terrorism. New York: Lexis Nexis, 2007. Print

Marting, Gus. Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues. California: Sage,

2009. Print

Cumming, Alfred. Policy Issues and Organizational Alternatives. New York: Henry Holt,

2005. Print