-Create a National Counterterrorism Center In the 2011 911 commission report progress, the Department of Homeland Security, the National Counterterrorism Center and other federal agencies have analyze travel-related data to understand travel patterns …show more content…
In 2004 when the 9/11 commissions recommended a major change in the Intelligence Community which resulted in creating a director for the DNI. Former President Bush signed executive orders in August 2004, which soon after in February 2005, the president announced that John D. Negroponte would be the first director of the DNI. With the reform of the new commission and director, this lead to the mission, vision and goals of the DNI. The mission are to lead intelligence integration and forge an Intelligence Community that delivers the delivers the most insightful intelligence possible. The vision is a nation made more secure because of a fully integrated Intelligence Community. The goals are integrate intelligence analysis and collection to inform decisions made from the White House to the foxhole, drive responsible and secure information-sharing, set strategic direction and priorities for nation intelligence resources and capabilities, and advance cutting-edge capabilities to provide global intelligence advantage and much more. To this day, the recommendations from the 9/11 commission report have proven to …show more content…
The main goal of the CATIC was designed to combat terrorism with this statewide intelligence system. It linked federal, state, and local information services in one system and divided operational zones into five administration areas (White 347). In 2002, the Department of Justice designed this program to train intelligence analysts to operate within civil rights guidelines and to use information in a secure communication systems. The pros of this system combined state and local law enforcement to access types of information coming from various police agencies. The information would correlate and be organized by analysts that are looking for terrorism trends. The information gathered would be from computers and other automated devices. This would lead to the downside of CATIC system because it used a synthesizing process. It would combine public information with data on criminal trends and possible terrorist activities which would process trends outside of jurisdiction. This lead to a halt because critics stated that the CATIC collected and maintained records on several individuals and groups that had nothing to do with terrorism (White 347). The system even gathered and stored information on political dissidents who engaged no criminal activity. Critics are afraid that information sharing may lead to massive