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INTELLIGENCE CYCLE 1. The FBI is in the process of establishing a formal intelligence cycle. In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on July 13, the Director stated that "... the intelligence cyele of requirements, collection, analysis, dissemination, aad feedback always was and is now carried out...” across the FBI. The Director also stated that the USA PATRIOT Act allowed the FBI"... io move from thinking about ‘intelligence as a case‘ to finding ‘intelligence in the case‘....". Do you see any contradictions or synergies between the gathering of evidence to support legal proceedings and the collection of intelligence based on previously identified gaps in national intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks or espionage activities? Response: We see enormous synergies between the two activities and, because of the tearing down of the walls between criminal and intelligence actwities, the FBI is now able reahze those synergies. First, National Intelligence Requirements are generated based on national security issues articulated by the President through. his advisors on National Secunty and Homeland Security. The FBI's law enforcement priorities are fully represenied tn those cequirements and the Attomey General and the Director of the FBI paricipate in quarterly National Secunty Council Principals’ Meetings devoted to the review of intelligence requirements. The new Attomey General Guidelines allow us to develop positive intelligence without first opening a case, and the FISA Court of Appeals ruling eliminated the need to open parallel cnminal and intell:gence cases and to marmtain a wall between therm For that reason, the CTD has adopted the Model Counterterrorism Investigative Strategy (MCTS) in which all cases are opened as intelligence cases. The FBI brings enormous strengths to the development of sources and the analysis of information precisely because of its history of gathenng evidence to support legal proceedings. Because it is accustomed to the need for witnesses and evidence that will withstand the scrutmy of Judicial review, the FBI brings a rigor and discipline to source development and analytic work that should serve as a model for the USIC. The need to protect classified information within court proceedings is sometimes viewed as a contradiction between evidence gathering and intelligence collection. The legai framework created by FISA and the Classified Information Procedures Act has for the past 25 years successfully sapported criminal prosecutions invelving classified information. 20 MISC. REQ. #53 000004687 sa pinned ts i