Intel sharing

Officials: E.U. and U.S. Need to Do Better Job Sharing Terrorism Intelligence

The U.S. and the European Union need to do a better job of sharing information immediately and in a secure way to best deter terrorist attacks, two senior international security officials said Monday.

But even after years of effort, the E.U. and the United States are not yet there.

Speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington, D.C., think-tank, Francis Taylor, undersecretary for intelligence and analysis at the Department of Homeland Security, said, “the world of terrorist-inspired attacks has changed.” While still including al Qaeda and its affiliates and the Islamic State, the threat is morphing to add “self-radicalized” men and women who are “often difficult to detect” as terrorists. Their attacks, such as that in San Bernardino, Calif., in December, can “occur with little or no warning.”