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Counterterrorism Experts with Divergent Views on the Terrorist Threat Have Several Areas of Agreement

• The terrorist threat has changed, from a strategic perspective.
• Local law enforcement focuses on how the terrorist threat manifests itself within the communities the agencies protect.
• Categorizing threats by group and compartmenting them by origin may unduly limit intelligence sharing and cooperation and pertains more to past threats than likely future threats.
• Building national resilience will require a more composed and nuanced national dialogue.
• Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs) remain the central construct of the domestic counterterrorist structure.
• Some of the obstacles that limit cooperation, information sharing, and collaboration among the various layers of government were put in place for good reason.
• Privacy and civil liberties (notwithstanding the current furor) should not be used as a blanket excuse to keep the intelligence community and local law enforcement apart. We should think about how to smartly remove barriers that prevent cooperation and communication between these two communities that have so much to benefit and learn from each other.
• It is difficult for national intelligence structures to talk about domestic terrorism.
• The nation's zero tolerance for terrorism may soon come into direct conflict with the need to reduce budgets.