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U.S. Inter-Agency Feud Disrupts Data Flow on Terror

Siobhan Gorman writes in The Baltimore Sun:

Nearly five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security continue to clash over who is in charge of coordinating and vetting information on terrorism. As a result, state and local authorities continue to get conflicting or incomplete information - sometimes none at all - on threats inside the United States, officials say.

The feud over control of the information caused federal agencies last week to miss a White House deadline for outlining how it should be distributed to state and local authorities, intelligence and counterterrorism officials said yesterday.

posted by Fergie @ 6/22/2006 09:07:00 AM