How can we increase the speed of information to all members of the intelligence community and police forces when it is the most crucial? How can we alert the security forces within our nation in time of crisis without compromising the data?

How can we put out alerts for those in our police departments across America without tipping off the bad guys we are on to them? How can we run stealth without leaking all the information and causing our targets to go into hiding? When the Department of Homeland Security gets a good tip off how can we be so sure that, we are not in fact wasting that lead by alerting too many people or not the right people on the team?

How can we use our own networking abilities of everyone on our own team in the same way the bad guys do on theirs? Well there are ways to distribute and collect information without giving away too much information.

Nevertheless there is a fine line between the collection of information and the distribution of information in the intelligence game. This is one area that causes various agencies to hold their data close to their chest and often is the reason that bad guys slip thru the cracks.

If something is ever so serious that alerts need to be made, there are of course options like the Amber Alert System, mass media and APBs and those work very well, but once the cat is out of the bag you have to move very fast to apprehend or you could lose it all and all the hard work putting into collecting that Intel in the first place. Consider this in 2006.