Information-sharing initiative’s future in question
The newly formed federal Information-Sharing Environment is at risk of losing steam because its director has resigned after only six months on the job, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said at a hearing yesterday. “I’m very concerned that this resignation will end any momentum on information-sharing that had been built up and that the state and local law enforcement will continue to lack the information that they need to find and stop terrorists,” Feinstein said Thursday at a hearing of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee. Full Story