The New Terrorist Threat Integration Center

• Make full use of all of our terrorist threat information, expertise, and capabilities to conduct threat analysis and inform collection strategies, though TTIC will not conduct collection operations.
• Create a structure to institutionalize sharing across agency lines of all terrorist threat intelligence, whether collected overseas or inside the United States in order to form the most comprehensive possible threat picture.
• Provide comprehensive terrorist threat assessments to our national leadership.

• TTIC participants will continue to be bound by all applicable privacy statutes, Executive Orders, and other relevant legal authorities for protecting privacy and our Constitutional liberties.
• Information technology and information handling procedures will be designed consistent with the protection of our Constitutional liberties, and participants will continue to be answerable both to internal agency oversight and Congressional oversight.

• TTIC will have no independent authority to conduct intelligence collection or other operations.
• The Director of Central Intelligence, as statutory head of the U.S. Intelligence Community, has authority to oversee the activities of TTIC.
• As TTIC and our ongoing war on terrorism evolve, the Administration will continue to consult with Congress and seek new statutory authorities if needed in the future.

• In its initial stage, TTIC will be primarily focused on the production of integrated terrorist threat analysis for the senior national leadership. TTIC will have a 24/7 watch center at its inception. Total staffing will be approximately 60 U.S. Government employees with additional contractor capability. This phase will begin by May 1, 2003. At this initial stage, TTIC will occupy secure facilities at CIA Headquarters, as do several other independent Intelligence Community entities.
• In the second phase of TTIC implementation, TTIC will be the principal gateway for policymaker requests for analysis of potential terrorist threats to U.S. interests and will maintain a database of known and suspected terrorists. Total staffing at this stage will be approximately 120 U.S. Government employees with additional contractor capability.
• In its final stage, TTIC will serve as the U.S. Government hub for all terrorist threat-related analytic work, with between 250-300 U.S. Government employees staffing TTIC. TTIC, along with the co-located FBI Counterterrorism Division and CIA Counterterrorist Center, will be located in a facility separate from CIA and FBI Headquarters.

Better Integrating Counterterrorist Efforts of the FBI and CIA

• Speed the creation of compatible information infrastructure with enhanced capabilities, expanded and more accessible databases, and greater network sharing on counterterrorism issues.
• Enhance interaction, information sharing, and synergy among U.S. officials involved in the war against terrorism.
• Maximize resources dedicated to the counterterrorism mission by reducing overhead and redundant capabilities.
• Further enhance the ability of comprehensive, all-source analysis to guide our collection strategies.

A Key Role for the Department of Homeland Security

Transforming the Federal Bureau of Investigation

• Disrupted terrorist plots on U.S. soil.
• Expanded from 35 to 66 the number of Joint Terrorism Task Forces across America, with full participation from, and enhanced communications with, multiple federal, state, and local agencies.
• Created a National Joint Terrorism Task Force at FBI Headquarters.
• Established a 24-7 Counterterrorism Watch center.
• Created new counterterrorism "Flying Squads" to deploy into the field at a moment's notice.
• Created Intelligence Reports Officers to facilitate the vital flow of information.
• Trained new analysts for the Counterterrorism Division, using a curriculum developed with assistance from the CIA.

For more information on the President's initiatives, please visit www.whitehouse.gov.

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