Congress should ensure that analysts are afforded training and career
opportunities on a par with those offered analysts in other intelligence
community agencies.
ability to use secure email systems and classified intelligence product
exchanges. The Congress should monitor whether the FBI's
information-sharing principles are implemented in practice.
agencies.The network designed for sharing information, and the work of the
FBI through local Joint Terrorism Task Forces, should build a reciprocal rela-
tionship, in which state and local agents understand what information they are
looking for and, in return, receive some of the information being developed
about what is happening, or may happen, in their communities. In this rela-
tionship, the Department of Homeland Security also will play an important
part.
directorate has the job to map "terrorist threats to the homeland against our
assessed vulnerabilities in order to drive our efforts to protect against terrorist
threats."
ilate and analyze information from Homeland Security's own component
agencies, such as the Coast Guard, Secret Service, Transportation Security
Administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Customs and
Border Protection.The secretary of homeland security must ensure that these
components work with the Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection
Directorate so that this office can perform its mission.
At several points in our inquiry, we asked, "Who is responsible for defending
us at home?" Our national defense at home is the responsibility, first, of the
Department of Defense and, second, of the Department of Homeland Secu-
rity.They must have clear delineations of responsibility and authority.
ing from outside America's borders. It did not adjust its focus even though the
intelligence community had gathered intelligence on the possibility that ter-