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Executive Summary - Since the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001, the men and women of the Federal Bureau of investigation (FB/) have implemented a comprehensive plan that fundamentally transforms the organization to enhance our ability to predict and prevent terrorism. We overhauled our “counterterrorism operations, expanded our intelligence capabilities, modernized our business practices and technology, and improved coordination with our partners Our plan consists of seven basic elements: “» 4 Prioritization -. We replaced a pnority system that allowed supervisors a great deal of flexibility with a set of 10 priorities that strictly govern the allocation of personnel and resources in every FBI program and field office. Counterterronsm is now our overriding prionty, and every terrorism lead is addressed, even if it requires a diversion of resources from other priority areas. 2 Mobilization o implement these new priorities, we increased the number of Special Agents assigned to “terrorism matters and hired hundreds of intelligence analysts and translators. We aiso established <a number of operational units that give us new or improved capabilities to address the terrorist “threat. These include the 24/7 Counterterrorism Watch and the National Joint Terronsm Task Force ta manage and share threat information; the Terrorism Financing Operation Section to ‘centralize efforts to stop terrorist financing; document/media exploitation squads to exploit ‘material found overseas for its intelligence value; deployable “Fly Teams” to lend counterterrorism xpertise wherever it is needed; and the Terrorist Screening Center and Foreign Terrorist Tracking ask Force to help identify terrorists and keep them out of the United States (U.S.), 3 Centralization ve centralized management of our Counterterronsm Program at Headquarters to limit “stove- epiping” of information, to ensure consistency of counterterrorism priorities and strategy across the organization, to integrate counterterrorism operations here and overseas, to. improve Ecoordination with other agencies and governments, and to make senior managers accountable e overall development and success of our counterterrorism efforts. ntelligence Integration 2 are building an enterprise-wide intelligence program that has substantially improved our lity to strategically direct our intelligence collection and to fuse, analyze, and disseminate our errorism-related intelligence. After the USA PATRIOT Act, related Attorney General Guidelines, ind the ensuing opinion by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review removed the arrier to sharing information between Intelligence and criminal investigations, we quickly mplemented a plan to integrate ail our capabilities to better prevent terrorist attacks. We then #5 000000340