Counterterrorism

Sheriff David Clarke: Nation needs new intelligence agency to win war on terror

A better approach is to create an agency solely dedicated to domestic intelligence – reducing the purview of the FBI and transferring these resources to an organization similar to MI-5 in the United Kingdom.

This new entity would approach terror in a way suited to the primary goal not of prosecution but pre-emption and would reflect the new reality of our world, which is that terrorism is no longer happening elsewhere. Instead, Americans if not our bureaucrats realize that the war has been brought to our own soil, and it’s time to stop being sitting ducks.

As a law-enforcement administrator, I understand what complexities this type of effort requires, and a wholly independent structure entity, which reports directly to the White House, is the answer for both accountability and reliability.