The recently released 9/11 Commission Report outlined forty-one
             recommendations necessary to protect the United States from threats to the
             welfare of American citizens in the twenty first century. President Bush
             announcing plans to establish the National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC)
             new position of National Intelligence Director (NID) to better coordinate
             information sharing between various intelligence agencies.
             Critics point out that President Bush failed to grant sufficient
             proposed position and that the NCTC is nothing much more than a new name
             joint CIA-FBI Terrorist Threat Integration Center, established last year
             problems surfaced concerning the sharing of intelligence information
             resources between domestic law enforcement authorities and intelligence
             Under the President's conceptualization, the NCTC might closely resemble
             structure of the Office of National Drug Control and the NID would have
             power no greater than the current CIA chief, which, according to those
             scheme believe would guarantee its failure (Whitelaw, p.28).
             While improved coordination between intelligence agencies is certainly
             necessary, it is insufficient, by itself, to redress the current situation,
             disturbing allegations such as those recently broadcast by CBS on its
             of 60 Minutes, surrounding the resignation of 15-year undercover FBI
             German. According to German, whose testimony sparked an ongoing
             the office of the Justice Department Inspector General, his refusal to
             improper documentation and outright cover-up of intelligence information
             the FBI resulted in retaliation from superiors, forcing his resignation.
             Particularly troubling is the fact that the information at issue in
             case pertained to the degree of collaboration between domestic terrorist
             and Al-Qaeda, since all indications suggest that the future of this
             depend, in large part, on the expansion of the entire intelligen...