Splitting the law enforcement and the intelligence functions would leave both agencies fighting the war on terrorism with one hand tied behind their backs.

Exercising the intelligence function produces information in several areas:

All US departments and agencies with intelligence functions are responsible for their own security abroad.

On Friday, the interior and justice ministers were clearly resistant to the idea of handing over any major intelligence function to a European government.

As with all intelligence functions, its prime purpose was to predict what the West would and could do.

Basic computer services continued to take care of vital work like life support, artificial gravity and the engines, but all higher intelligence functions were gone.

While news media may speak of "spy satellites" and the like, espionage is not a synonym for all intelligence functions.

"For the moment, the intelligence function had achieved equal standing with other staff missions."

The trick now was to do something about them, but that was not, strictly speaking, an intelligence function.

The after action stuff was an intelligence function, supervised by Bill Tawney.