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QUESTIONS FOR ADMIRAL JAMES LOY Dec. 10, 2003 Chief Immigration Officer. Does this position exist? Who is it? What responsibility? Border Security and Immigration Working Group. Original plan called for a Border Security and Immigration Working Group to be in effect for two years in the Secretary's office. Does it exist? If so, who runs it? What issues are they dealing with? Homeland Security Council. What is the role of the Homeland Security Council in the day to day life of DHS? What value, if any, do you see in the HSC for DHS? Who do you work with at HSC? Command and Control at the border in case of national emergency. Is there a command and control strategy is in place for a fully integrated and seamless border and transportation agency response in the event of another national emergency? DHS Organization for borders. Right now, border security is within DHS, but sprinkled throughout DHS, with the Coast Guard and Citizenship and Immigration Services reporting directly to the Secretary, and others under Hutchinson, (ISA, CBP, ICE). • • • •

Policy integration between Hutchinson's Policy directorate and CIS Policy integration between Hutchinson's Policy directorate and Coast Guard Information integration between CBP, ICE, CIS and the Information Analysis on intel; fraud; visa policy enforcement; application of US Visit biometrics to CIS.

Risk Assessment. You referred in your May 2003 testimony before Senate Appropriations a DHS (and TSA) to a "threat-based risk management plan". Is there a risk management plan incorporating immigration-related security issues? What is the current status of the plan? Does it incorporate immigration-related border security (ie the flow of people)? We would like to obtain a copy. Recommendations. What recommendations do you have for making DHS a stronger institution in the area of border management? Information acquisition and analysis? CIA Contributions. Numerous senior management officials at DHS have been briefed on some critical new CIA tools that focus on terrorist travel documents. Their findings and formulas have been significantly incorporated into computer modules, but to our knowledge are not incorporated into any DHS system. What is your plan for incorporating innovative counter-terrorism tools from other agencies into a high priority action plan at DHS? Coast Guard Terrorist focus. Did the Coast Guard when you were in charge focus in the context of your security programs on the possibility of terrorist infiltration using merchant ships or other boats? Terrorist episodes. Did the Coast Guard to your knowledge ever apprehend a known terrorist through a narcotics investigation or otherwise? (1998-2001) Fraudulent documents. Did the Coast Guard look at whether merchant mariner travel documents are susceptible to fraud or are adequate for our security purposes? Recommendations. When you left Coast Guard, what were your priorities for anti-terrorism and counterterrorism for that organization?