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November 18, 2004
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For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
November 23, 2004

November 18, 2004



MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

SUBJECT: Further Strengthening Federal Bureau of

Investigation Capabilities

The Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the
United States recommended:

A specialized and integrated national security workforce should be

established at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) consisting

of agents, analysts, linguists, and sur-veillance specialists who are

recruited, trained, rewarded, and retained to ensure the development

of an institutional culture imbued with a deep expertise in

intelligence and national security.

I approve and direct you to implement the recommendation, recognizing that
significant progress has already been made in strengthening the FBI's
capabilities, especially with respect to the FBI's intelligence
organization, information sharing, personnel development, and recruiting.

To build upon this foundation, and to strengthen further the FBI's ability
to prevent, preempt, and disrupt terrorist threats to and attacks against
the United States, I direct you to implement within the FBI measures to:
(1) Continue to improve the FBI's ability to collect, process, analyze,

and disseminate to appropriate officials in the executive branch,

including appropriate officials within the Intelligence Community,

information relevant to national security and homeland security;

(2) Ensure full and seamless coordination and cooperation between the FBI

and all other elements of the Intelligence Community, including the

Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, and

the National Counterterrorism Center; and

(3) Ensure that the activities described in subparagraphs (1) and (2) of

this paragraph are performed in a manner consistent with our national

intelligence priorities and constitutional protections.

The measures directed in the preceding paragraph shall include, but not be
limited to, measures to:

(1) Ensure that the Director of the FBI (Director), not later than 90

days from the date of this memorandum, allocates sufficient resources

and authority to the new FBI Intelligence Directorate to perform its

assigned mission. The Intelligence Directorate shall have

responsibility for all components and functions of the FBI judged by

the Attorney General, in consultation with the Director of Central

Intelligence, to be necessary for the performance of its mission,

including development of the intelligence cadre, field intelligence

operations oversight, human source development and management, the

FBI's collection against nationally determined intelli-gence

requirements, information sharing and dissemination policy, language

services, strategic analysis, and program and budget management;

(2) Within resources available to the Department, create within the FBI,

not later than 90 days from the date of this memorandum, a

specialized, integrated intelligence cadre (including special agents,

analysts, linguists, and surveillance specialists), and implement a

separate career track program permitting employees within the

intelligence cadre to pursue their entire career, including promotion

to the most senior positions in the FBI, within this cadre. This

effort shall include the establishment, not later than 90 days from

the date of this directive, of specific requirements for the

following: training; career development; certification, recruiting,

hiring, and selection; integration of the cadre into the FBI's field

intelligence groups and headquarters divisions; and senior-level

field and headquarters management. These requirements shall be fully

consistent with the standards defined in Executive Order 13355 of

August 27, 2004, entitled "Strengthened Management of the

Intelligence Community;"

(3) Recommend, as part of the Fiscal Year 2006 budget development

process, the most appropriate methods for aligning the FBI's budget

structure according to its four main programs: intelligence,

counterterrorism and counterintelligence, criminal, and criminal

justice services;

(4) Recommend, as part of the Fiscal Year 2006 budget development

process, the appropriate funding levels for each program to ensure

that the FBI is able to:

(a) Carry out its overriding priority to prevent, preempt, and

disrupt terrorist threats to and attacks against our homeland,

our people, our allies, and our interests around the globe;

(b) Collect, process, share, and disseminate, to the greatest

extent permitted by applicable law, to the President, the Vice

President in the performance of Executive functions, and other

officials in the executive branch, all "terrorism information,"

as defined in Executive Order 13356 of August 27, 2004,

entitled "Strengthening the Sharing of Terrorism Information to

Protect Americans," and other infor-mation necessary to

safeguard our people and advance our national security and

homeland security interests; and

(c) Facilitate the above functions by increasing the availability

of secure facilities to allow for the expanded use of secure

systems for the storage and exchange of classified materials;

(5) Recommend, if necessary, not later than 60 days from the date of this

memorandum, any amendments to statutes, executive orders, or

presidential directives required to provide the personnel,

procurement, information sharing, or other authorities necessary for

the FBI to meet its national security responsibilities;

(6) Ensure that, in addition to creating a separate intelligence career

track, the FBI creates an intelligence officer certification program

and requires such certification for advancement to senior FBI

operational management positions. This certification program shall

include requirements for applicable skills, training courses,

assignments to other intelligence, national security, or homeland

security components of the executive branch, and shall be fully

consistent with the standards defined in Executive Order 13355;

(7) Provide to me, not later than 90 days from the date of this

memorandum through the Assistant to the President for National

Security Affairs and the Assistant to the President for Homeland

Security, a comprehensive plan with performance measures, including

timelines for achievement of specific, measurable progress, in each

of the following areas:

(a) Analysis (including standards for the recruitment, hiring,

training, and performance of FBI analysts);

(b) Products (including product standards, standards for measuring

the responsiveness of those products to nationally determined

priorities, measures of the percentage of products written to

the lowest possible classification level and the percentage

transmitted and posted using secure systems, measures of the

effectiveness of products in meeting the needs of State and

local governments, as appropriate, and measures of customer

satisfaction);

(c) Sources (including standards for asset validation, asset

contributions to filling intelligence gaps, and new source

development, with particular emphasis on human sources);

(d) Field intelligence operations (including standards for

assessing staffing and infrastructure, intelligence production

management processes, and the number of field intelligence

group supervisors certified as Intelligence Officers); and

(e) Contribution of the FBI's intelligence products to the

intelligence and national security information made available

to the President, the Vice President in the performance of

Executive functions, and other officials in the executive

branch, including the degree to which each FBI Field Office is

collecting against, and providing information responsive to,

national requirements.

A copy of this plan will be provided to the Commission on the

Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding

Weapons of Mass Destruction. The Commission will advise me on

the adequacy of the plan, particularly with respect to any

matters concerning countering the threat posed by weapons of

mass destruction;

(8) Implement, not later than 90 days from the date of this memorandum, a

program to ensure that the FBI's recruitment and training program for

agents and analysts enhances the FBI's ability to target and attract

individuals with educational and professional backgrounds in

intelligence, international relations, language, technology, and

relevant skills;

(9) Report to me, through the Assistant to the President for Homeland

Security and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, on

the actions and investments necessary to ensure that the architecture

supporting FBI information systems is consistent with broader

information architecture, and with other initiatives as I direct to

facilitate information sharing across Federal, State, and local

government agencies, and the private sector; and

(10) Beginning in June 2005, I direct you to report to me at least

semi-annually through the Assistant to the President for National

Security Affairs, the Assistant to the President for Homeland

Security, and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget on

the progress made implementing this memorandum and other relevant

milestones in development of the FBI's intelligence program,

including milestones related to analysis and the analyst workforce,

intelligence production, intelligence sources, intelligence

certification, and FBI field intelligence operations.

This memorandum shall be implemented subject to the availability of
appropriations and in a manner consistent with applicable law, including
the Constitution and laws protecting the freedom and information privacy of
Americans.

GEORGE W. BUSH

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