20-734: The Counterterrorism Division ( CTD ) is a division of the National Security Branch of the Federal Bureau of Investigation . CTD investigates terrorist threats inside the United States, provides information on terrorists outside the country, and tracks known terrorists worldwide. In the wake of the September 11 attacks in 2001, CTD's funding and manpower have significantly increased. The Division employs counterterrorism field operations organized into squads,
40-717: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Iraq Intelligence Commission The Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction is a panel created by Executive Order 13328 , signed by U.S. President George W. Bush in February 2004. The impetus for the Commission lay with a public controversy occasioned by statements, including those of Chief of
60-497: Is headed by an assistant director, who reports to the executive assistant director of the FBI National Security Branch . The Counterterrorism Division has several branches: Operations Branch I is composed of two sections: International Terrorism Operations Section I (ITOS-I) and International Terrorism Operations Section II (ITOS-II). The ITOS-I covers al Qaeda terrorist activity on a regional basis in
80-717: The Domestic Terrorism Operations Section (DTOS), Exploitation Threat Section (XTS), and Terrorist Financing Operations Section (TFOS). The Analytical Branch includes two sections: the Counterterrorism Analysis Section (which supports Operations I and II) and the Terrorism Reports and Requirements Section (TRRS). The Branch also includes a Strategic Assessment and Analysis Unit, Production and Publications Unit. The Operational Support Branch manages
100-770: The Iraq Survey Group , David Kay , that the Intelligence Community had grossly erred in judging that Iraq had been developing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) before the March 2003 start of Operation Iraqi Freedom . President Bush therefore formed the Commission, but gave it a broad mandate not only to look into any errors behind the Iraq intelligence, but also to look into intelligence on WMD programs in Afghanistan and Libya , as well as to examine
120-440: The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the ongoing threat of terrorist activity." With regard to Iraq , the commission was meant to "specifically examine the Intelligence Community's intelligence prior to the initiation of Operation Iraqi Freedom and compare it with the findings of the Iraq Survey Group and other relevant agencies or organizations concerning the capabilities, intentions, and activities of Iraq relating to
140-847: The CTD's administrative and resource functions, FBI detailees to other agencies, and the Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force. The various local Joint Terrorism Task Forces falls under the domain of this branch. FBI National Security Branch The National Security Branch ( NSB ) is a service within the Federal Bureau of Investigation . The NSB is responsible for protecting the United States from weapons of mass destruction , acts of terrorism , and foreign intelligence operations and espionage . The NSB accomplishes its mission by investigating national security threats, providing information and analysis to other law enforcement agencies, and developing capabilities to keep
160-496: The Commission concluded that the United States Intelligence Community was wrong in almost all of its pre-war judgments about Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction and that this constituted a major intelligence failure . The Intelligence Community's performance in assessing Iraq's pre-war weapons of mass destruction programs was a major intelligence failure. The failure was not merely that
180-736: The Executive Director for the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction sometimes called the Iraq Intelligence Commission. He also served as the first Director of the National Counterterrorism Center under President George W. Bush and founded and served as the first Commander of the United States Navy Fifth Fleet (COMFIFTHFLT). Days before
200-412: The Intelligence Community's assessments were wrong. There were also serious shortcomings in the way these assessments were made and communicated to policymakers. The Commission's report also described systemic analytical, collection, and dissemination flaws that led the intelligence community to erroneous assessments about Iraq's alleged WMD programs. Chief among these flaws were "an analytical process that
220-594: The National Security Branch, or go into the "Criminal" part of the Bureau and focus on crimes such as organized crime , narcotics , civil rights violations , fraud , and violent crime . Advocates of this new program say that this re-organization will help the fight against terrorism by making it less bureaucratic. This United States government–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This crime -related article
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#1732772829097240-841: The US nation secure. Headed by an FBI Executive Assistant Director, the NSB is responsible to the FBI Director through the Deputy Director . As a unit of the FBI (which is a division of the United States Department of Justice ), the NSB is ultimately responsible to the Attorney General of the United States . In addition, the critical role the NSB plays within the United States Intelligence Community places it within
260-491: The United States and abroad. ITOS-II focuses on four non-al Qaeda groups: Palestinian rejectionist groups, Iran and Hezbollah , Iraq / Syria / Libya , and other global terrorist groups. ITOS II has a Central Intelligence Agency officer serving as Deputy Section Chief, and an FBI agent is detailed to the CIA's Counterterrorism Center as that unit's Deputy Director. Operations Branch II includes three more disparate sections:
280-641: The capabilities of the Intelligence Community to address the problem of WMD proliferation and "related threats." However, the commission was not directed to examine the extent to which the Bush administration may have manipulated the intelligence. Following intense study of the American Intelligence Community, the Commission delivered its report to the President on March 31, 2005, the so-called Robb-Silberman Report. Regarding Iraq,
300-404: The conclusions reached by the report were: The report also looked forward, recommending a large number of organizational and structural reforms. Of the 74 recommendations to the President, he fully accepted 69 in a public statement released on June 29, 2005. The Commission's mission is, in part, "to ensure the most effective counter-proliferation capabilities of the United States and response to
320-459: The design, development, manufacture, acquisition, possession, proliferation, transfer, testing, potential or threatened use, or use of Weapons of Mass Destruction and related means of delivery." Commission members are: The first seven members of the panel were appointed on February 6, 2004, the date of the executive order which created it. The final two members, Vest and Rowen, were appointed on February 13. Vice Admiral John Scott Redd served as
340-508: The leadership of a senior FBI official. The NSB was formed by the unification of the FBI's various national security and intelligence gathering units: It is speculated that this will lead to the formation of "career paths" for FBI Special Agents ; meaning that once a new agent has completed Special Agent Training at FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia , and has completed the mandatory probationary period, that he or she can choose to go into
360-408: The number of which varies according to the amount and diversity of activity in the local field office's jurisdiction. Larger field offices, such as Los Angeles , maintain counterterrorism squads for each major terrorist group, as well as for domestic terrorism and terrorist financing, while smaller field offices combined such responsibilities across two to three squads. The Counterterrorism Division
380-549: The purview of the Director of National Intelligence . The FBI created the National Security Branch (NSB) on September 12, 2005 in response to a presidential directive and as a result of the recommendations of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission to establish a "National Security Service" that combines the missions, capabilities, and resources of the FBI's counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and intelligence elements under
400-455: Was driven by assumptions and inferences rather than data", failures by certain agencies to gather all relevant information and analyze fully information on purported centrifuge tubes, insufficient vetting of key sources, particularly the source " Curveball ," and somewhat overheated presentation of data to policymakers. The 601-page document detailed many U.S. intelligence failures and identified intelligence breakdowns in dozens of cases. Some of
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