Bringing Together Homeland Security, Intelligence, and Defense
By Tom Barry
Who’s taking care of our national security—our nation’s defense, military operations, homeland security, and intelligence? There’s the Department of Defense, the U.S. Armed Forces, the Department of Homeland Security, and the “intelligence community” of agencies led by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. But since Sept. 11 national security has been increasingly outsourced.
Now we have what might be termed a national security complex where intelligence, defense, and homeland security are closely linked and integrated—and more and more in the hands of the private sector.
Tom Barry is a senior foreign policy analyst with the Americas Program at the Center for International Policy in Washington, DC. He blogs at: http://borderlinesblog.blogspot.com/.
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