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Assignment - Vertical Legal Issue Pertains to An Agreement Between Stakeholders Responses
Provide 2 responses to the below posts
Post 1 - Why is the handling of information troublesome at times, we have, after all, a common procedure in the Intelligence Community and everyone should simply follow it, right? Explain.
Post 2 - Thank you for your post this week. Regarding your response to Question IV, I understand the analogy that good communication between manufacturer and customer is the basis of a good partnership. However, I don't think that would be the best example of a vertical legal issue. I agree that using all means of effective communication can resolve the supply chain's potential crisis between manufacturer and customer. I think you are describing the fundamental law of supply and demand. I would have delved deeper into the potential of high-quality goods being counterfeited and disseminated to the open market. How do the customers and manufacturers address and solve the black-market crisis since that is what would disrupt the supply chain? The COVID pandemic has created a backlog of supplies coming into the country. With such delays in critical goods (such as lithium batteries, refrigerators, cars, or items brought from overseas), the potential for encouraging criminal behavior is a distinct possibility. Since counterfeiting is a federal crime, private entities or manufacturers of quality goods can collaborate with national intelligence agencies to help monitor the supply chain and mitigate irregular and perhaps illegal activities.
Fusion centers are unique because they are a center of gravity for unclassified information that the entire intelligence network can access. However, they still suffer from 1.) lack of inter-agency communication, 2.) not enough of them, and 3.) inconsistencies in access to said information. (House Homeland Security Committee, 2017) Nevertheless, collaboration with these centers, doing away with the over-classification of information, and essentially bringing everyone on the same page (intelligence-wise) would strengthen the supply chain and make them less vulnerable to illegal actors seeking to exploit potential weaknesses.
Reference - House Homeland Security Committee. (2017). Advancing the homeland security information sharing environment: A review of the national network of fusion centers.