Budget Issue the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has raised the issue whether all the various intelligence activities within the Department of Homeland Security should be included within the National Intelligence Program and brought under the management control of the Director of National Intelligence. The OMB proposal cites the definition of national intelligence in the IRTPA and the increasing integration of Homeland Security elements into a national system for countering terrorists and other international criminal organizations. Their initiative also recommends that the National Counter-terrorism Center (NCTC) be moved into the Department of Homeland Security. Your “boss” (chairman of the senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee) ask you to prepare a briefing paper on (Moving all DHS component intelligence and intelligence related funding (in a change from the present concept of a non-NIP HSIP) into the NIP). “he want to know whether he should support this. He wants to be assured this will result in better intelligence.” Do some research on the purpose of the various intelligence activities within the Department of Homeland Security (see Randol’s article) and of the NCTC. In briefing paper format provide the arguments to your (chairman of the senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee) “boss” or principal for or against the assigned propositions. One important element in your paper should be responsibilities and equities of your (assigned) organization; e.g. would the impact be negative or positive. Briefing paper instructions are the same as already provided; the maximum length of the paper is two pages.