Threat Assessment: September 5-9, 2011

AGAINST US

Intel chiefs say counterterror efforts lagging

A survey of intelligence commanders in America's biggest cities paints a grim picture of their counterterror efforts in the last ten years. The Homeland Security Policy Institute found that the chiefs feel the nation's intelligence enterprise is less robust than it could be, and that 62 percent of the chiefs felt "unable to develop a complete understanding of their local threat." [ABC News]