Risk Management & Threat Assessments
Columbia Southern University
FIR 4313
Risk Management & Threat Assessments
The discussions that happened weeks and days after 9/11 were about the missed
opportunities. Once the 9/11 Commission reports were released it showed the elevated
importance of terrorism- related information. Once after that report was released, the
policymakers took a entire fresh look at the recommendations of several pre-9/11 national
security commissions that discussed related to information sharing. An 2003 Markle Task Force
for the National Security has released a comprehensive report to look at the information sharing
regime would look like and reflect technological, governance, policy, and cultural trials that are
associated with the progress near the vision of information sharing. (Kamien and Chertoff 186)
This issue rapidly became an official policy for the Executive Branch. Homeland Security
focused on importance of issues, this is to secure the homeland better, connecting the vast
amounts of information which residing in each government agency. President George W. Bush
issued a very detailed National Strategy for Information Sharing, this emphasized the key
information initiatives and activities happening within the federal government, in 2012 Obama
Administration was in the process of bringing up-to-date the information sharing strategy.
(Kamien and Chertoff, 2012)
Overall, they have been a number of initiatives that have been taken on to have answered
to the imperative to advance the information sharing, this is to remedy the detailed information
sharing disappointments. The 9/11 Commission, and the improve the U.S. government overall
capability to detect and to disturb terrorist plots in the homeland. (Kamien and Chertoff, 2012)