“This second Annual Report to the Congress on the Information Sharing Environment (ISE) describes the state of the ISE, highlights areas where there has been measurable progress in improving information sharing, and demonstrates the value of the ISE to the Nation’s broader counterterrorism (CT) mission. In particular, the President’s October 2007 National Strategy for Information Sharing (NSIS) reinforced the importance of information sharing as a national priority. The NSIS integrates all prior terrorism-related information sharing policies, directives, plans, and recommendations, and provides a national framework against which to implement the ISE. While the complexity of the information sharing challenge should not be underestimated, significant progress has been made. This report addresses progress in information sharing to date, while revealing how the paradigm of information sharing—and the ISE in particular—has broadly permeated our institutions of government.”