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New, Old Intelligence Agencies Clarify Roles By Joe Fiorill Global Security Newswire WASHINGTON — The new Terrorist Threat Integration Center is the primary U.S. agency responsible for analyzing terrorism-related intelligence and providing the president with the resulting analyses, four U.S. officials stated in a letter to senators released yesterday (see GSN, Feb. 10). The letter’s recipients, Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chairwoman Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.), first requested the clarification after a related February 2003 hearing. In an October 2003 letter, they asked the four directors “which component of the U.S. intelligence community has the primary responsibility for the analysis of foreign intelligence relating to terrorism” and which “has the primary responsibility for the analysis of domestic intelligence relating to terrorism.” In their reply, dated April 13, Terrorist Threat Integration Center Director John Brennan, FBI Director Robert Mueller, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and CIA Director George Tenet wrote that while the Terrorist Threat Integration Center has “primary responsibility in the USG [U.S. government] for terrorism analysis,” the Homeland Security Department’s Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Directorate has “primary responsibility for matching the assessment of the risk posed by identified threats and terrorist capabilities to our nation’s vulnerabilities.” The agency heads said the FBI, which experts and legislators have proposed stripping of its domestic intelligence role, has “primary responsibility with regard to the analysis of” terrorism information that “has been determined to have no … link to international terrorism.”
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