[iwar] Former U.S. Officials Call for Domestic Intelligence Service Within FBI

Global Security Newswire

Tuesday, December 9, 2003

Former U.S. Officials Call for Domestic Intelligence Service Within FBI

A group of former officials from the CIA, FBI and U.S. Defense
Department have called for expanded FBI capabilities to conduct domestic
intelligence operations, the New York Times reported today (see GSN,
Oct. 15).

So far, the Bush administration has rejected proposals to create a new
domestic intelligence agency and has instead conducted several small
measures, such as creating a terrorist threat analysis center jointly
operated by the CIA and FBI. Yesterday, former CIA senior official John
MacGaffin and former Deputy Defense Secretary John Hamre told a
commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that a
new domestic intelligence service should be established within the FBI
and managed by the head of the CIA.

The group of former officials has proposed that agents of the new FBI
domestic intelligence service focus solely on intelligence and
counterterrorism, and not be used for criminal investigations. That
would represent a major cultural shift within the bureau, where agents
consider themselves law enforcement officials first, the Times reported.

"You need bureau officers who are not law enforcement officers, but are
intelligence officers," said former CIA counterterrorism chief and group
member Paul Redmond, "They would come to work every day to penetrate
organizations, not to arrest somebody," he said (James Risen, New York
Times, Dec. 9).

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Fred Cohen & Associates - University of New Haven - Security Posture

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