Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 09/2008

PolicyWatch #1295: Transforming U.S. Efforts to Fight Transnational Terrorist Networks

Michael Jacobson

October 2007

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Abstract

The FBI recently announced that it is engaged in a comprehensive realignment of its counterterrorism division -- the largest such reorganization since the September 11 attacks. Although the proposed reorganization is unlikely to achieve the desired fundamental transformation, it should improve the bureau's ability to combat the increasingly complex threat posed by transnational terrorist networks.