Johnston, David. "C.I.A. Director Will Lead Center to Combine Agencies' Information on Terror Danger." New York Times, 29 Jan. 2003. [http://www.nytimes.com]By Excutive Order on 27 August, 2004, TTIC morphed into the National Counterterrorism Center (NCC) under the authority of the DCI. With the passage of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, the NCC morphed into the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence.
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Johnston, David. "C.I.A. Director Will Lead Center to Combine Agencies' Information on Terror Danger." New York Times, 29 Jan. 2003. [http://www.nytimes.com]
Pincus, Walter, and Mike Allen. "Terrorism Agency Planned; Center to Integrate Intelligence, Analysis." Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2003, A12. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
On 28 January 2003, in his State-of-the-Union address, President George W. Bush announced plans "for a new center to integrate intelligence on terrorism collected at home and abroad.... A senior adminsitration official said the new Terrorism Threat Integration Center will access intelligence gathered by the CIA, Justice Department, Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security and provide 'seamless' analysis of the information.... The new center is expected to take over compilation of the integrated threat matrix -- a day-to-day accounting of potential threats -- given to President Bush and other senior national security officials each morning.... The center will be placed directly under the supervision of [DCI] George J. Tenet, reinforcing Tenet's role as Bush's senior intelligence adviser, officials said."
Eggen, Dan, and John Mintz. "Agency to Concentrate Intelligence Analysis." Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2003, A9. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
President Bush's decision to create the Terrorist Threat Integration Center "could dramatically remake the way the U.S. government analyzes and responds to terrorist threats, but it is also aimed at heading off even more drastic changes sought by some lawmakers, administration officials and intelligence experts said" on 29 January 2003.
Eggen, Dan. "Bush Aims to Blend Counterterrorism Efforts." Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2003, A16. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
In an appearance at FBI headquarters on 14 February 2003, President George W. Bush announced plans "to place FBI and CIA counterterrorism operations under one roof.... Under the plan, the FBI's entire counterterrorism division would be moved into a secure building with the CIA's Counterterrorism Center and a new Terrorist Threat Integration Center.... [T]he FBI would retain control over its counterterrorism division. [DCI] George J. Tenet ... would run both the counterterrorism and threat centers."
Harris, Shane. "CIA Executive Will Head New Terrorist Intelligence Center." GovernmentExecutive.com, 11 Mar. 2003. [http://www.govexec.com]
The White House announced on 11 March 2003 that John Brennan will become director of the Terrorist Threat Integration Center when it begins operations on 1 May 2003. Brennan, the current CIA deputy executive director, is a career CIA terrorism analyst with a background in Middle Eastern affairs. The Terrorist Threat Integration Center "fuses the FBI’s counterterrorism division with the CIA’s counterterrorism center. By placing those units under one roof, the administration intends to create a 'hub' for all terrorist intelligence analysis in the government."
Risen, James. "A Top Intelligence Post Goes to C.I.A. Officer in Spy Case." New York Times, 14 Mar. 2003. [http://www.nytimes.com]
The White House announced on 13 March 2003 that Paul Redmond, former CIA chief of counterintelligence, "has been named assistant secretary of homeland security for information analysis.... Redmond's unit will be in charge of processing and analyzing intelligence" provided by the Terrorist Threat Integration Center and other agencies and will "be responsible for processing intelligence collected by agencies within the Homeland Security Department, like the Coast Guard, Border Patrol and Immigration and Naturalization Service."
John Brennan, the newly named chief the Terrorist Threat Integration Center, which will begin operations on 1 May 2003, "told reporters that he believed his center would be a hub in the government's efforts to integrate terrorist-related information gathered by the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the Homeland Security Department and other agencies." Redmond's unit will work closely with the center "to help policy makers determine the level of the terrorist threat facing the United States, a spokesman for the security department said."
Eggen, Dan. "Center To Assess Terrorist Threat: New Operation to Be Housed at CIA for Now." Washington Post, 1 May 2003, A10. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
The Terrorist Threat Integration Center (TTIC) officially begins operation on 1 May 2003. The new center "will start with a skeleton staff of 60 in temporary quarters at CIA headquarters in Langley." It will immediately take responsibility "for compiling the top-secret Daily Threat Matrix, an analysis that forms the backbone for much of the administration's strategy in assessing terrorist attacks.... [M]any lawmakers and intelligence experts are taking a cautious view of the threat center concept, which critics view as a wasteful bureaucracy that will only worsen confusion and communication problems within the intelligence community."
Best, Richard A., Jr. Homeland Security: Intelligence Support. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, Updated 6 Aug. 2003. Available at: http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/crs/rs21283.pdf.
"Legislation creating a homeland security department ... proposed an analytical office within DHS that would draw upon the information gathering resources of other government agencies and of the private sector.... The Administration appears to prefer a modification to the approach originally envisioned in the legislation that created DHS. TTIC [Terrorist Threat Integration Center], under the direction of the DCI, will provide the integrative analytical effort.... Whether TTIC is consistent with the intent of Congress in passing the Homeland Security Act and whether it is ultimately the best place for the integrative effort is current[ly] a matter of discussion in Congress."
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