domestic intelligence is scattered among member agencies, many of whom do not even realize they are collecting “intelligence." As I noted earlier, one of the key challenges is to figure out how to collect the vast array of information from domestic and foreign sources and spot those key pieces of information that are critical to identifying the threat in advance. I believe the DCI, working closely with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Director of the FBI, can devise efficient priorities for the collection of intelligence.

6. As I also noted above, I believe the single most important element of this new TTIC will be the quality of personnel who are assigned there. All agencies must send to the TTIC their best performers. In addition, a vigorous recruiting effort should be made to find the best and brightest from among recent university graduates, the military, other government agencies, private industry, and academia. The best minds must be brought together to help fight terrorism.

Finally, Madam Chair, although I support the President's effort I believe it is only a first step. I believe the time has come to create a true domestic security service. In my mind, such a service would have the following responsibilities:

1. The first responsibility is to ask the question: What are the threats, whether generated from within the United States or outside, to the national security of the United States that will manifest themselves within the territorial confines of the United States? Thus the service would be responsible for counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and

counterespionage. I would not include narcotics or ordinary domestic crime such as hate

and racist groups.

2. The service would be responsible for the clandestine collection of intelligence within the United States, and to some limited extent overseas when it relates to the domestic security of the United States.

3. The service would also be responsible for preparing analysis associated with domestic threats - in other words the TTIC would ultimately become the analytical arm of this new agency.

4. Such an agency would, therefore, combine the national security and

counterterrorism divisions of the FBI, large portions of the domestic activities of the CIA that relate to counterterrorism and counterintelligence and certain elements of other departments and agencies.

5. The service would also be responsible for working with State and local governments to provide intelligence and threat analysis to them. It would also be the conduit through which information is provided from the local agencies to the Federal Government that is relevant to counterintelligence and counterterrorism.

6. The service would not have arrest authority and, in part because of that,

would present less of a threat to our civil liberties than a law enforcement agency that is also charged with collection and analysis of intelligence on domestic activities.

7. Rigorous oversight would have to be in place, including perhaps some additional legislation with respect to electronic surveillance and infiltration of domestic

groups.

I note that yesterday Senator Edwards introduced a bill to create such an agency and I am very pleased that he has done so. It is my hope that Congress will quickly take up Senator Edwards's bill and enact it.

Again, Madam Chair and Members of the Committee, thank you very much for the privilege of appearing before you, and I look forward to answering your questions.

Thank you very much.

JOINT STATEMENT OF THE TERRORIST THREAT INTEGRATION CENTER
SENIOR STEERING GROUP

Winston P. Wiley,

Chair, Senior Steering Group

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As you know, in his State of the Union address, the President instructed the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation working with the Attorney General, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop the Nation's first unified Terrorist Threat Integration Center (TTIC). connection with his recent visit to FBI headquarters, the President announced that the TTIC would stand up by May 1 and would, as soon as possible, be housed - collocated -- with the FBI's Counterterrorism Division and the DCI Counterterrorist Center at a yet-to-be determined site. We appreciate your invitation to discuss our plans for TTIC and how we intend to ensure that it reaches its full potential.

Let me first outline how we got here. Immediately following the President's State of the Union address, the DCI asked me to chair a Senior Steering Group (SSG) charged with determining how best to realize the President's vision for TTIC. The SSG consisted of a single senior representative of the Departments of State, Defense, Justice/FBI and Homeland Security, as well as of the CIA and the Office of Management and Budget, each of whom is here with me today. Joining me here today are my colleagues on the Senior Steering Group: Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Gordon England, the FBI's Executive Assistant Director for Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence, Pat D'Amuro, the Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Rich Haver, the CIA's Deputy Executive Director, John Brennan, and the Ambassador-at-Large in the State Department's Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Cofer Black.

We on the SSG, in turn, convened a Working Group drawing on the very broadest array of expertise from affected entities. Among those were, of course, CIA, FBI, DHS, DOD, State, NSA, NIMA, and OMB. The SSG reviewed the implementation variables and decision points the Working Group had identified, and on that basis proposed a structure that will fully implement the President's vision for TTIC.

TTIC's Mission and Structure. TTIC's mission is to enable full integration of U.S. Government terrorist threat-related information and analysis. Its structure will promote that. TTIC will be an interagency joint venture where officers will work together to provide a comprehensive, all-source-based

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picture of potential terrorist threats to U.S. interests. TTIC's structure is designed to ensure rapid and unfettered sharing of relevant information across departmental lines. will collapse bureaucratic barriers and close interjurisdictional seams. The objective is to create value-added efficiencies in analyzing the full array of terrorist threatrelated information the U.S. Government has available to it.

Elements of the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI's Counterterrorism Division, the DCI's Counterterrorist Center, the Department of Defense, and other U.S. Government agencies, as appropriate, will form TTIC. TTIC will not, however, involve any of its participating agencies in new missions. It will combine their terrorist threat-related analytic efforts in support of a more focused and comprehensive, Government-wide, counterterrorist intelligence effort.

We want to stress a few of TTIC's most important features. TTIC will:

Have unfettered access to all intelligence

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assessments

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from raw reports to finished analytic available to the U.S. Government.

Provide all-source terrorist threat assessments to our national leadership.

Oversee a national counterterrorism tasking and
requirements system.

Maintain a database of known and suspected terrorists that will be accessible to federal and, as appropriate, non-federal officials and entities.

TTIC will close any gaps separating analysis of foreign-sourced and domestic-sourced terrorist threatrelated information. It will provide integrated analysis of potential terrorist threats to all U.S. interests, physical and cyber. TTIC's structure will promote comprehensive analysis of potential terrorist threats and unprecedented information sharing across agency lines to ensure optimum support to a disparate array of customers not only at the federal level, but also (through the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI) to state, local, and private sector officials who have homeland security-related responsibilities.

Capabilities and Timing. TTIC cannot reach its full, end-state capabilities overnight. Stand-up will occur by May 1. At stand-up, TTIC will focus on integrating terrorist threat-related information. It will produce the daily Threat Matrix, Situation Reports, CT Updates, and