inter-agency terrorist threat warnings for senior national leadership. TTIC will also have the support of an Interagency Transition Working Group, comprising representatives from participating departments and agencies, to advise and assist the Director of TTIC in addressing implementation and integration issues. As soon as possible thereafter, TTIC will become the principal gateway for policymaker requests for analysis of potential terrorist threats to U.S. interests. At this point, TTIC will begin to stock and maintain a database of known and suspected terrorists. TTIC will also be producing current intelligence and terrorist-related assessments, drawing on non-TTIC resources and expertise as necessary. TTIC will, of course, be able to reach back to its participating parent agencies' base resources as necessary to meet its extraordinary requirements. This instantaneous surge capability is one of the benefits of structuring TTIC as a joint venture of its participating agencies. TTIC will, under its Director's guidance, serve as the U.S. Government hub for all terrorist threat-related analytic work. Individual departments and agencies will retain their current ability to produce tailored analytic products in support of their individual missions, but will routinely augment TTIC's dedicated analytic resources and other capabilities. In sum, at its full, end-state capability, TTIC will have robust inter-agency participation, including, for example, in its 24/7 watch and integrated analytic support teams. When TTIC reaches its full, end-strength capability, it will be collocated with the DCI's Counterterrorist Center and the FBI's Counterterrorism Division at a yet-to-beacquired site. Prior to that, TTIC will be located on the CIA headquarters compound, as are many other independent Intelligence Community entities. TTIC Command Structure. The Director of TTIC will be a senior U.S. Government official who reports directly to the Director of Central Intelligence in his statutory capacity as head of the Intelligence Community. The Director of Central Intelligence, in consultation with the Director of the FBI and the Attorney General, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Homeland Security, will appoint the Director of TTIC. TTIC's Director and its three Deputy Directors (for Analysis, Management, and Liaison) will come from different Government agencies. The Director of TTIC will be the final review and approval authority for TTIC-generated products. For national-level analysis produced outside TTIC, existing departmental review processes and procedures will prevail until the Director of TTIC has established other arrangements by agreement with the appropriate senior Government officials. At TTIC's end-state, all nationallevel terrorist threat-related analysis will be coordinated with the Director of TTIC or his/her authorized representative. Information Access. The President's TTIC initiative seeks to ensure that TTIC has access to the full array of terrorist threat-related information available within the U.S. Government. Consistent with that vision, TTIC analysts with a need to know will -- regardless of their agency affiliation be afforded access to terrorist threatrelated information, from raw reports to finished analytic assessments, collected through widely disparate sources, methods, and agencies. TTIC analysts with the need to know will have access, as appropriate, to all terrorist threatrelated reporting (disseminated and non-disseminated). Need to know determinations will be based on TTIC's objective of ensuring comprehensive and integrated terrorist threat assessments based on the entire spectrum of available intelligence. The Director of TTIC's own access will be equivalent to that of the Chiefs of the DCI Counterterrorist Center and the FBI's Counterterrorism Division. Information Technology. TTIC will utilize the most advanced systems and techniques that are available, accredited, and consistent with its mission objectives. TTIC will use the existing and accepted Intelligence Community architecture that enables information sharing across boundaries (i.e., the Intelligence Community System for Information Sharing (ICSIS)). TTIC's information technology will allow unprecedented access to information for all TTIC participants due to the "system high" nature of the access model we have adopted for TTIC. TTIC TTIC analysts will have access to all necessary Intelligence Community networks and, where required, native access to their home ayency's internal network. analysts will also have available to them the Intelligence Community's most powerful analytic tools for searching, analyzing, linking, and visualizing the Intelligence Community's data holdings to best understand the terrorist. threat picture. TTIC's information technology implementation program will adhere to Intelligence Community and commercial standards and practices. An executive agent for the DCI will coordinate this implementation program with all TTIC's participating agencies. Concluding Observation. I want to assure you that we on the TTIC Senior Steering Group wholeheartedly share the President's view that the TTIC is a major step in the direction of comprehensive and seamless integration and analysis of terrorist threat-related information. It builds on our strengths and adds to them new efficiencies. TTIC is very good news for the American people and very bad news for terrorists. My Senior Steering Group colleagues and I would be happy to answer your questions. Pasquale J. D'Amuro Executive Assistant Director for Counterterrorism/Counterintelligence Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Hearing - "Consolidating Intelligence Analysis: A Opening Oral Statement Good morning Madam Chair Collins, Ranking Member Lieberman, and other distinguished Members of the Committee. I would like to express my gratitude to the Committee for the opportunity to testify today. I am honored to be included in such a distinguished panel of executives from the U.S. intelligence and law enforcement communities. I would also like to thank the Committee for allowing me to add the following remarks to Mr. Wiley's written statement submitted for the record: President Bush recently emphasized during a speech at FBI Headquarters that "the FBI has no greater priority than preventing terrorist acts against America." The FBI strongly supports the formation of the Terrorist Threat Integration Center (TTIC) and is proud to be a partner with the CIA, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and all the other participating agencies. The FBI's experience in conducting complex criminal and terrorism investigations has shown that analysts are most effective when they are in constant and close communication with investigators. For this reason, the FBI strongly supports and looks forward to the expeditious implementation of plans to co-locate the FBI's Counterterrorism Division (CTD) with the CIA's Counterterrorism Center (CTC), the Department of Homeland Security, and other U.S. agencies participating in the TTIC. As you may know, the FBI has established sixty-six Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs) in FBI field offices around the country and a National Joint Terrorism Task Force (NJTTF) at FBI Headquarters. The JTTFs partner FBI personnel with hundreds of investigators from federal, state, and local agencies. These partnerships provide an effective and efficient mechanism to collect domestic threat-related information. The TTIC will fuse the information collected domestically by the FBI's JTTFs with threat-related information gathered abroad. The fusion of domestic and international threatrelated information at the TTIC is critically important for the FBI to accomplish its mission of preventin terrorist attacks in the future. The FBI views the TTIC as an important resource. The TTIC will not only provide all-source, integrated analysis to the FBI, but also to the officials in state and local law enforcement who are essential partners in the fight against terrorism. We recognize that the two-way flow of information between federal and local law enforcement is necessary to continuously sharpen both the collection and analysis of threat-related information. Once again, the dozens of FBI JTTFs around the country provide an effective channel to share the TTIC's analytical products with our partners in state and local law enforcement. The FBI is committed to working with the Department of Homeland Security to push information and analysis out of the TTIC to other federal agencies, and to state and local officials. We are expanding our ability to collect, analyze, and disseminate intelligence. The centerpiece of this effort is the establishment of an Executive Assistant Director for Intelligence who will have direct authority and responsibility for the FBI's National Intelligence Program. Specifically, the EAD for Intelligence will be responsible for ensuring that TTIC's reporting requirements are met by field offices. Our support of the TTIC will not change our mission, priorities, or operations. In fact, the TTIC will only strengthen our capabilities. The FBI is uniquely positioned to bring both national security and law enforcement authorities to bear in the war against terrorism. Recently, the ability to develop intelligence on terrorist activities and use law enforcement powers to disrupt them was exemplified in Buffalo, New York, where we arrested seven al-Qaeda associates and sympathizers indicted in September 2002 for providing material support to terrorism. Every FBI agent is trained to recognize that along with these broad authorities comes the responsibility to implement them fairly and in accordance with the protections provided by the Constitution. It is important to note that the FBI's role, and the roles of all TTIC participants, must and will remain consistent with the protections provided by privacy laws, Executive Orders, AG Guidelines, and other relevant legal authorities in order to protect Constitutional liberties and privacy interests. Again, I offer my gratitude and appreciation to you, Madam Chair Collins, and the Governmental Affairs Committee, for dedicating your time and effort to this issue and I would be happy to respond to any questions. |