Tuesday, April 23, 2013

SWAT teams enter a suburban neighborhood to search for the remaining suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings in Watertown, Mass., April 19, 2013. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi

These are the people to be grateful for. 

Boston will begin to do the same thing New York has done since September 11, 2001. New York City set up their own intelligence department that will work in cooperation with the FBI.

New York does their own international intelligence. 

What is this? You know the answer. It is a local economy. Okay? 

If there was a local man in Cambridge that was questioned by the FBI, Boston Intelligence should have been notified, possibly Cambridge intelligence. They are sometimes called detectives. There are very valid and competent ways and people that can secure the USA, but, it requires Homeland Security, the CIA and the FBI to disseminate information to the local level. 

The concern here is the possibility of local governments over stepping their boundaries in citizen surveillance, the funding needed, the chance of getting carried away and LEAKS. But, it can be done. New York City proved that. 

Should Homeland Security include a model that disseminates information from the FBI when they have come to initial conclusions about a citizen? It's a big change in the way intelligence would be handled in the USA, but, it widens the base to the numbers of eyes, ears and brains working on the security of the nation.

Training and new levels of 'shield accomplishment and promotions.' 

Who is most invested in the outcomes of surveillance? Who loves the people more? Who wants to protect the local economies more than anyone in DC?

Bring them all the cookies they can tolerate without sugar shock.

Stop struggling with all this. Stop accepting war as the only answer to these dynamics. The answer is not that difficult.