Fo B5 Public Hearing 4-13-04 Fdr- Tab 10-2- Suggested Questions For John O Brennan 746

COMMISSION SENSITIVE PREVENTING FUTURE ATTACKS INSIDE THE UNITED STATES SUGGESTED QUESTIONS FOR JOHN O. BRENNAN Designated Commissioners: Fred Fielding & Jamie Gorelick Background: When the President announced the formation of the Terrorist Threat Integration Center in his State of the Union speech in January 2003 he said that he had instructed that this new center be created to "close the seam between analysis of foreign and domestic intelligence on terrorism ...[and that]...this new center will merge and analyze terrorist related information collected domestically and abroad in order to form the most comprehensive possible threat picture. " The White House also noted in a news release that: [TTIC will] "be responsible and accountable for providing terrorist threat assessments to our national leadership. " Our investigation so far has indicated that TTIC has struggled to get started, but currently has 123 "assignees "from CIA, DHS, FBI, DoD, State and other agencies. It produces the President's daily Terrorist Threat Report (PTTR or "putter"), the Terrorist Threat Matrix, a twice daily situation report (SitRep), as well as threat warnings andSEIB articles. TTIC currently receives its funding from "taxes " on the agencies it draws staff from and is working toward moving out of CIA HQ to a new facility. 1. How has the establishment of the Terrorist Threat Integration Center helped to make America safer? 2. Does the Terrorist Threat Integration Center have lead responsibility for warning of terrorist attacks, and if so, what steps have you taken to meet this responsibility? 3. What authority do you have over the agencies that collect and produce intelligence that the Terrorist Threat Integration Center must rely on for its reporting? Can you task the agencies that collect intelligence data? 4. Can you drive the analytic agendas of the large intelligence agencies? 5. How does the Terrorist Threat Integration Center differ from the CIA's Counterterrorism Center and the Department of Homeland Security's Directorate of Information Analysis (DHS/IA)? 6. Will the Terrorist Threat Integration Center perform long term strategic analysis on emerging terrorist organizations, their intentions, and their possible methods of attack? 7. Do you have responsibility for assessing and analyzing the leadership, strategy, organization, and long term threat potential of al-Qa'ida and affiliates and other terrorist groups or are you limited to analyzing only threat information? 8. Since you report to the Director of Central Intelligence, what is his charge to you, what does he want you to accomplish in the first year? Over the next five years? What goals have you set for the Terrorist Threat Integration Center?

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COMMISSION SENSITIVE 9. What is the Terrorist Threat Integration Center's responsibility to state and local government authorities? 10. We understand the DCI asked former Deputy DCI Mr. Richard Kerr to lead a panel last year to assess the division of labor between the Counterterrorist Center and the Terrorist Threat Integration Center. What were the findings of that panel and its major recommendations? What is your time horizon for implementing them?

Fusion and Confusion. Commission staff has found that the establishment ofTTIC and IA in the Department of Homeland Security has created more confusion than clarity. In fact, the Second Report of the Markle Foundation Task Force released in December 2000, says "...the very fact of the TTIC's creation has caused confusion within the federal government and among state and local governments about the respective roles of the TTIC and the DHS. Moreover, we understand that the TTIC is presently focused on only one part of its assigned mission - 'providing terrorist threat assessments' ...for our national leadership... While this is an important function, the TTIC's single-minded focus on this one aspect of its mission has prevented it from addressing the urgent intelligence needs of operational entities throughout the government and serving as a key locus for intelligence fusion and sharing. " 1. hi your view has the creation of the Terrorist Threat Integration Center and the Department of Homeland Security's Directorate of Information Analysis helped with the critical fusion of terrorist information that was lacking before the 9/11 attacks or exacerbated the problem? How can you assure us that similar information sharing problems that occurred prior to 9-11 are fixed? 2. How have databases been combined or networked across the Intelligence Community to aid the Terrorist Threat Integration Center in meeting its responsibilities? To what data bases do your analysts have direct access? Do they each have all accesses or do assignees only have access to their own agencies' databases?

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