The
FBI's overriding priority is to protect America from terrorism
attacks. Our mission is to identify and disrupt potential
terrorist plots by individuals or terror cells, freezing
terrorist finances, sharing information with law enforcement
and intelligence partners worldwide, and providing strategic
and operational threat analysis to the wider intelligence
community. Over the past five years, we have dramatically
strengthened our ability to combat terrorism.
Shift
in resources
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Realigned
resources, shifting agents from some criminal programs
to counterterrorism
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Doubled
the number of intelligence analysts and tripled the
number of linguists
Joint
Terrorism Task Forces
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Increased
multi-agency JTTFs from 35 to 101 since 2001
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Increased
agents and police officers on JTTFs from under one thousand
to nearly four thousand
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Thousands
of clearances passed for state/local JTTF officers
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Created
National JTTF at Headquarters with 40 member agencies
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National
Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) - Integrates intelligence
related to terrorism; conducts strategic operational
planning; serves as central repository for terrorism
intelligence; provides intelligence support government-wide,
allows connectivity and access to IT systems/databases
of participating agencies
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Milestone in information sharing - FBI, CIA, DOD,
DHS, DOE, HHS, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Capitol
Police sit together and work as one team
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Operates secure website, NCTC On-Line, the primary
dissemination system for terrorism information produced
by the NCTC and other counterterrorism mission partners,
including international partners
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Foreign
Terrorist Tracking Task Force (w/ CIA, ICE. DOD, OPM)
- Provides information that helps keep foreign terrorists
and their supporters out of the U.S. or leads to their
removal, location, detention, surveillance, or prosecution.
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Terrorist
Screening Center (TSC) - Stood up 12/03 to create
a single comprehensive database of known or suspected
terrorists (both domestic and international); manages
one, consolidated watch list available in real-time
to federal, state, and local officers 24/7, accessible
through the NCIC
Operational
Response and Support
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Established
24/7 CT Watch
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Established
Fly Teams to respond to terrorism incidents or threats
around the world. Fly teams have assisted investigations
in places like Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Pakistan, England,
and Spain
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Established
Terrorism Financing Operations Section to centralize
efforts to track and shutdown terrorist financing and
to exploit financial information in an effort to identify
previously unknown terrorist cells, and recognize potential
activity/planning
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TFOS
builds on the FBI's expertise in conducting complex
criminal financial investigations and long-established
relationships with the financial services sector.
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The
FBI has made tremendous progress in tracking and freezing
terrorists' assets
Weapons
of Mass Destruction
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Established
WMD Directorate
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Highly
trained WMD coordinators in each field office
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