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17-931: 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 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

34-800: A center were announced by President George W. Bush in his January 2003 State of the Union address . On May 1, 2003, Executive Order 13354 established the Terrorist Threat Integration Center (TTIC). In 2004, the center was renamed NCTC and placed under the United States Director of National Intelligence by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act . After the Christmas 2009 terrorist attempt on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 ,

51-474: 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 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

68-743: The President of the United States , the National Security Council , and the Homeland Security Council . It provides terrorism information to the intelligence community ; makes detailed lists of terrorists, terrorist groups, and worldwide terrorist incidents; supports the response to terrorist incidents in the United States and worldwide; and writes assessments and briefings for policymakers. The NCTC has access to various databases , including those from

85-496: 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

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119-1588: The American commission was announced, the government of the United Kingdom , the U.S.'s primary ally during the Iraq War , announced a similar commission to investigate British intelligence, known as the Butler Inquiry or the Butler Review. The commission was independent and separate from the 9-11 Commission . Executive Order 13328 Look for Executive Order 13328 on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Executive Order 13328 in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use

136-736: 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

153-581: 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 the capabilities of the Intelligence Community to address the problem of WMD proliferation and "related threats." However,

170-626: The NCTC was tasked with creating a process to "thoroughly and exhaustively" prioritize terrorism threat threads; identify follow-up action by intelligence, law enforcement, and homeland security; and enhance the "Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment" database, to add names to watchlists. In 2012, United States Attorney General Eric Holder granted NCTC the authority to collect, store, and analyze extensive data collections on U.S. citizens compiled from governmental and non-governmental sources for suspicious behavior through pattern analysis and to share

187-567: The center brings together specialists from other federal agencies, including the CIA , the FBI , the Department of Defense , and the Department of Homeland Security . The idea of a center to merge intelligence on terror threats was proposed by the 9/11 Commission following the completion of its investigation into the September 11 attacks , the deadliest attack in world history. Plans to create such

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204-805: 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, 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

221-404: 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

238-839: The databases with foreign states. The effort has drawn controversy for its pre-crime effort, which has been likened to the Information Awareness Office and its proposed mass surveillance . In August 2019, The Daily Beast reported that the NCTC had begun to work on counterintelligence to combat domestic terrorism. The center analyzes terrorism intelligence including potential domestic threat intelligence; monitors communications internationally and domestically for potential threats; generates actionable information to potentially prevent criminal acts domestically; stores terrorism information; supports U.S. counterterrorism activities using information technology (IT); and plans counter-terrorism activities as directed by

255-459: 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

272-530: The first character; please check alternative capitalizations and consider adding a redirect here to the correct title. If the page has been deleted, check the deletion log , and see Why was the page I created deleted? Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13328 " National Counterterrorism Center Part of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence ,

289-599: The intelligence community to erroneous assessments about Iraq's alleged WMD programs. Chief among these flaws were "an analytical process that 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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