ways the Bureau has never done before.
overseen by the top tier of FBI management. Field intelligence groups have
been created in all field offices to put FBI priorities and the emphasis on intel-
ligence into practice. Advances have been made in improving the Bureau's
information technology systems and in increasing connectivity and informa-
tion sharing with intelligence community agencies.
necessary. Specifically, he has recognized that the FBI needs to recruit from a
broader pool of candidates, that agents and analysts working on national secu-
rity matters require specialized training, and that agents should specialize within
programs after obtaining a generalist foundation.The FBI is developing career
tracks for agents to specialize in counterterrorism/counterintelligence, cyber
crimes, criminal investigations, or intelligence. It is establishing a program for
certifying agents as intelligence officers, a certification that will be a prerequi-
site for promotion to the senior ranks of the Bureau. New training programs
have been instituted for intelligence-related subjects.
include units for intelligence planning and policy and for the direction of ana-
lysts and linguists.
Mueller's tenure.We have found that in the past the Bureau has announced its
willingness to reform and restructure itself to address transnational security
threats, but has fallen short--failing to effect the necessary institutional and cul-
tural changes organization-wide.We want to ensure that this does not happen
again. Despite having found acceptance of the Director's clear message that
counterterrorism is now the FBI's top priority, two years after 9/11 we also
found gaps between some of the announced reforms and the reality in the field.
We are concerned that management in the field offices still can allocate peo-
ple and resources to local concerns that diverge from the national security mis-
sion.This system could revert to a focus on lower-priority criminal justice cases
over national security requirements.
workforce should be established at the FBI consisting of agents, ana-
lysts, linguists, and surveillance specialists who are recruited, trained,
rewarded, and retained to ensure the development of an institutional