Improving Transnational Intelligence Sharing

Posted: December 23rd, 2020

By Emile Nakhleh

Dr. Emile Nakhleh is a retired Senior Intelligence Service Officer, a founding director of the CIA's Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program and the Global and the National Security Policy Institute at the University of New Mexico. Since retiring from the government, Nakhleh has consulted on national security issues, particularly Islamic radicalization, terrorism, and the Arab states of the Middle East. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Emile Nakhleh is a retired CIA Senior Intelligence Service Officer and founding director of the CIA’s Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program Office. Nakhleh is currently a Research Professor and Director of the Global and National Security Policy Institute at the University of New Mexico.

OPINION — As the Biden administration takes office, it will have to prioritize a myriad of critical global and regional challenges, ranging from terrorism to rebuilding alliances and from failing states to ending “forever wars.” The last four years have seen transnational security agencies less interested in sharing intelligence with their U.S. counterparts, which in turn has deprived the U.S. government of critical information.

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