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Mission & Vision

NSB Mission Statement

To optimally position the FBI to protect the U.S. against weapons of mass destruction, terrorist attacks, foreign intelligence operations, and espionage by:

• Integrating investigative and intelligence activities against current and emerging national security   threats;
• Providing useful and timely information and analysis to the intelligence and law enforcement   communities; and
• Effectively developing enabling capabilities, processes, and infrastructure, consistent with   applicable laws, Attorney General and Director of National Intelligence guidance, and civil
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NSB Vision Statement

To the extent authorized under the law, build a national awareness that permits recognition of a national security threat, sufficiently early to permit its disruption. This will be a discerning process that promotes the collection of relevant information and minimizes the accumulation of extraneous data that unnecessarily distracts from the analytical process.