FC: Terrorist Threat Integration Center meets mild criticism

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0503/052303td1.htm

Lawmakers wary of new terrorist threat center
By Maureen Sirhal
May 23, 2003

Several key lawmakers have warned an independent commission assembled to 
study the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that the CIA should not oversee 
a new anti-terrorism center designed to integrate domestic and foreign 
intelligence data.

Congress required the Homeland Security Department to implement a system 
for analyzing information on terrorist threats, but a separate entity known 
as the Terrorist Threat Integration Center (TTIC) is housed within the CIA 
and will serve as a central repository for all government intelligence 
information. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., said the Bush administration 
unwisely placed that center there.

"The administration has ... created a weak intelligence-analysis unit 
inside the department and a brand new threat-integration center under the 
command of the director of central intelligence," Lieberman told the 
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, also known 
as the 9-11 Commission. "I fear it will not do what is necessary to prevent 
further terrorism from occurring."

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