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Intelligence

Intelligence is a critical component of national and homeland security. HSPI explores a variety of intelligence issues, including reform, intelligence-sharing, improved analysis, and collection issues.

HSPI Publications

Congress Should Consider Its Own Failures in Attempted Bombing
Daniel J. Kaniewski
Roll Call
February 19, 2010

No Longer On Auto-Pilot: Aviation Security and Intelligence Reform
W. Ralph Basham, Sharon L. Cardash, Frank J. Cilluffo, and Daniel J. Kaniewski
HSPI Commentary
January 8, 2010

Canada and the United States: Time for a Joint Threat Assessment?
Sharon Cardash, Frank J. Cilluffo, and James Jay Carafano
HSPI Commentary
April 22, 2009

How can the U.S. improve Human intelligence?
Frank J. Cilluffo
The Washington Times
July 6, 2008

The Use and Limits of U.S. Intelligence (pdf)
Frank J. Cilluffo, Ronald A. Marks, and George C. Salmoiraghi
The Washington Quarterly
Winter 2002

HSPI Testimony & Presentations

Office of the Director of National Intelligence Open Source Conference 2008, Washington, D.C. Director Frank Cilluffo discussed a range of open source analytical tools as part of an expert panel on “Creating Decision Advantage with Open Source” on September 11, 2008.

Moving Beyond the First Five Years: Evolving the Office of Intelligence and
Analysis to Better Serve State, Local, and Tribal Needs
Statement of Frank J. Cilluffo
Before the Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Homeland Security Committee
April 24, 2008

Building Strategic Concepts for the Intelligence Enterprise conference, Arlington, Virginia. Director Frank Cilluffo was featured as a guest speaker on “Deepdive on New Methods for a New Threat” as part of a multi-day conference sponsored by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on January 25, 2008.

The Role of Intelligence in Identifying, Preventing and Responding to Transnational Terrorism: A Framework for U.S. National Security Planners
Remarks by Frank J. Cilluffo to the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law & National Security
December 10, 1996

HSPI Events

Spanish Ambassador Jorge Dezcallar
HSPI Ambassadors Roundtable Series
November 12, 2008

French Ambassador Pierre Vimont
HSPI Ambassadors Roundtable Series
November 12, 2007

Canadian Ambassador Michael Wilson and Dr. James Young
HSPI Ambassadors Roundtable Series
November 1, 2007

HSPI In the News

Interview on "The World Today"
BBC World Service
March 10, 2010
HSPI Director Frank Cilluffo assesses the broader implications of the 'Jihad Jane' arrest, focusing specifically on the use of the internet to connect terror organizations and facilitate radicalization. More

Cilluffo discusses elevated terror threat level in UK
Fox News Channel
January 25, 2010 Video

Experts

Frank J. Cilluffo, Director, Homeland Security Policy Institute

Frank has served as Director of the Homeland Security Policy Institute since joining The George Washington University in April 2003. He also serves as the University’s Associate Vice President for Homeland Security, where he leads GW’s homeland security efforts on policy, research, education, and training. The Institute’s recent policy and research agenda has spanned terrorism and radicalization, disaster management and emergency preparedness, pandemic influenza planning and bio-defense, intelligence and information sharing, and a host of other national and homeland security matters. Prior to joining HSPI, Frank served as Special Assistant to the President for Homeland Security at the White House. Shortly following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, he was appointed by the President to the newly created Office of Homeland Security, and served as a principal advisor to Governor Ridge. Prior to his White House appointment, Cilluffo spent eight years in senior positions with the Center for Strategic & International Studies, where he chaired or directed numerous committees and task forces on homeland defense, counterterrorism, transnational crime, and information warfare. More