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Executive Summary Since the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001, the men and women of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have implemented a comprehensive pian that fundamentally transforms the ganization 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: 1 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. Counterterrorism is now aur overriding priority, and every terrorism lead 1s addressed, - even if it requires a diversion of resources from other priority areas. 2 Mobilization “To implement these new priorities, we increased the number of Special Agents assigned to terrorism matters and hired hundreds of intelligence analysts and translators. We also 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 to manage and share threat information; the Terrorism Financing Operation Section to ‘centralize efforts to stop terrorist financing; document/media exploitation squads to exploit aterial found overseas for ts intelligence value; deployable “Fly Teams” to lend counterterrorism xpertise wherever it is needed; and the Terrorist Screening Center and Foreign Terrorist Tracking k Force to help identify terrorists and keep them out of the United States (U.S.), } Centralization We centralized management of our Counterterrorism Program at Headquarters to limit “stove- iping” of information, to ensure consistency of counterterrorism priorities and strategy across «the organization, to integrate counterterrorism operations here and overseas, to improve ordination with other agencies and governments, and to make senior managers accountable the overall development and success of our counterterrorism efforts. Intelligence Integration re building an enterprise-wide intelligence program that has substantially improved our bility to strategically direct our intelligence collection and to fuse, analyze, and disseminate our trorism-related intelligence. After the USA PATRIOT Act, related Attorney General Guidelines, and the ensuing opinion by the Foreign Intelligence Surveiliance Court of Review removed the Be>arrier to sharing information between intelligence and criminal investigations, we quickly Mplemented a plan to integrate all our capabilities to better prevent terronst attacks. We then #5 1 000000340