16.The intelligence community currently makes information shareable by creating "tearline" reports, with the
nonshareable information at the top and then, below the "tearline," the portion that recipients are told they can
share.This proposal reverses that concept. All reports are created as tearline data, with the shareable information at
the top and with added details accessible on a system that requires permissions or authentication.
17. See Markle Foundation Task Force report, Creating a Trusted Information Network for Homeland Security (Markle
Foundation, 2003); Markle Foundation Task Force report, Protecting America's Freedom in the Information Age (Markle
Foundation, 2002) (both online at www.markle.org).
18. Markle Foundation Task Force report, Creating a Trusted Information Network, p. 12. The pressing need for
such guidelines was also spotlighted by the Technology and Privacy Advisory Committee appointed by Secretary
Rumsfeld to advise the Department of Defense on the privacy implications of its Terrorism Information Aware-
ness Program.Technology and Privacy Advisory Committee report, Safeguarding Privacy in the Fight Against Terror-
ism (2004) (online at www.sainc.com/tapac/TAPAC_Report_Final_5-10-04.pdf). We take no position on the
particular recommendations offered in that report, but it raises issues that pertain to the government as a whole--
not just to the Department of Defense.
19.This change should eliminate the need in the Senate for the current procedure of sequential referral of the
annual authorization bill for the national foreign intelligence program. In that process, the Senate Armed Services
Committee reviews the bill passed by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence before the bill is brought before
the full Senate for consideration.
20.This recommendation, and measures to assist the Bureau in developing its intelligence cadre, are included
in the report accompanying the Commerce, Justice and State Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2005, passed by the
House of Representatives on July 7, 2004. H.R. Rep. No. 108-576, 108th Cong., 2d sess. (2004), p. 22.
21. Letter from Ridge and others to Collins and Levin, Apr. 13, 2004.
22. For the directorate's current capability, see Patrick Hughes interview (Apr. 2, 2004).
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