Joint Intelligence - Assignment Example

United States of America Intelligence departments should be able to collect all the information that the enemies have pertaining to the planned attack.

Intelligence services use various principles as far as intelligence activities are concerned; prioritization, which involves ensuring that the most pressing issues are sort out first and the available resources should be applied to those tasks; excellence, intelligence participants should strive to obtain the best results always; prediction, a process that involves future outcomes of the intelligence activities; agility, which is the principle that involves shifting from one activity instantaneously but still solving the past issues; Collaboration, which is a principle that involves consulting with other analysts and fusion, which is a principle of intelligence that involves the process of collecting and examining resources from all the available sources.

The recent bombing that occurred in New York on September 11, 2001, was a very open example of how some intelligence principles discussed above were not fully applied. It is believed that the attack was conducted by Islamic terrorists but more and more intelligence services are bringing forth contradicting information regarding that attack. It killed many people and this sent alarming security weakening among the US intelligence services. The principle that was overlooked was the collaboration principle since all departments didn’t collaborate to share the intelligence information which caught them unaware.