Russia contacted US goverment ‘multiple’ times on concerns about alleged Boston Marathon bomber

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4. They Need A Good Database Design Expert

When the FBI and CIA collect homeland security/terrorist data they need to spin that off and forward it to DHS to process and distribute to both the FBI and CIA, regardless of the agency that collected the data. That way all 3 departments would have standardized and unified data. Obviously, when DHS collects their own data they would distribute that to both the FBI and CIA as well. Yes, that would result in some redundancy so depending on how much it might be necessary for only a summary to be carried on the FBI and CIA database with read access to DHS data on a need to know basis for the complete picture. That is my read at least, meaning it is not a "stovepipe" problem as much as it is a database design problem. DHS probably assumed that since they had the data on the Russia trip that so did the FBI -- a bad assumption. My design would eliminate that problem. Oh, I would have no problem with keeping a source code so when a plot gets discovered that the proper department can receive the credit and ego can be rewarded.