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Initial Capabilities In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks, we were asked to begin sending to the White House each morning daily reports on counterterrorism-related events, We had no mechanism in place for collecting that information, so preparation of the reports was initially haphazard. For the first few months, the Director's Chief of Staff was responsible for preparing the daily report that would be delivered to the President. Throughout the day, he monitored developments, gathered urgent reports, attended briefings, and noted any item that might be worth including in the next morning’s report. If there were questions he thought needed answering, he would either contact the appropriate person or ask SIOC to follow up and e-mail him an answer by 4:00 a.m. the next morning He would arrive at 4.301n the morning and update that morning’s report based on any other overnight reports in SIOC and any e-mails that had come tn overnight. CT Watch then took that report and packaged it in a daily briefing book. Working with limited personnel, unreliable color printers, arid few supplies, they managed to produce 15 to 20 briefing booklets per day New Capabilities During the past 31 months, with the assistance of veterans from the Intelligence Community, we have established the infrastructure and the cadre of professionals to produce effective daily briefings and to share briefing materials more widely within the Bureau and with our partners. In 2002 we established the Presidential Support Group within the Counterterronsm Division to prepare daily briefing materials. In the summer of 2003, this group was renamed the Strategic Analysis Unit and moved to the Office of Intelligence. Beginning in August 2003, the Strategic Analysis Unit began producing the Director's Daily Report (DDR), a daily intelligence briefing that includes information on counterterrorism operations, terrorism threats, and information related to all areas of FBI investigative activity To produce the DDR, the Strategic Analysis Unit consolidates and refines information provided in a standardized format by intelligence personnel in each division. Each morning, information about new threats is added, and information about threats that have been thoroughly vetted during the night is removed. The DDR is produced Monday through Friday and ts distributed to executives in all operational divisions. The Director uses the DDR to brief the President nearly every weekday morning. The FBI also produces the Presidential Intelligence Assessment, a finished FBI intelligence product covering topics of particular interest to the President, and its personnel at TTIC contribute to the formulation of the daily President’s Terrorist Threat Report. Director Mueller holds threat briefings twice a day: an intelligence briefing at 7:15 a.m. anda case-oriented briefing at 5 p.m. At these briefings, a briefer and the operational executive managers provide a summary of the current threats and our operations. With CIA and DHS representatives in attendance, these meetings also serve to ensure that all threat. information IS appropriately passed to those agencies. The development of this daily briefing operation is a tangible measure of the progress we have made since the day when terrorism investigations were run by individual field offices and little effort was made to centrally direct or coordinate them throughout the Bureau and with the other agencies involved in protecting the U.S. against terrorism. MISC DOC. #5 66 000000405