How does Homeland Defense intelligence relate to Criminal Justice intelligence?
Increasingly, intelligence professionals are finding links between the activities and supporters of terrorist organizations and international criminal organizations and behavior. For example, money laundering is a crime both in most countries and according to international statutes. Yet many organizations are engaged in laundering vast sums of money that support terrorist organizations in an attempt to hide the identity of the supporters of the terrorists. Into these situations enter law enforcement officials who specialize in the forensics of money laundering. Also, terrorist actions are crimes, and as such our law enforcement community has an inherent interest in preventing, investigating and prosecuting terrorist activity that endanger the homeland. Therefore, homeland defense intelligence and criminal justice intelligence are often tightly linked. However, there are many instances when some intelligence may impact homeland defense only, and some intelligence may be related to more
