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Key Passages from The 911 Commission Report Chapter 13 …[N]o one was firmly in charge … and able to draw relevant intelligence from anywhere in the government, assign responsibilities across the agencies (foreign or domestic), track progress, and quickly bring obstacles up to the level where they could be resolved. Responsibility and accountability were diffuse. The agencies cooperated, some of the time. But even such cooperation as there was is not the same thing as joint action. When agencies cooperate, one defines the problem and seeks help with it. When they act jointly, the problem and options for action are defined differently from the start. Individuals from different backgrounds come together in analyzing a case and planning how to manage it. ... Reasons for joint action — the virtue of joint planning and the advantage of having someone in charge to ensure a unified effort. There is a third: the simple shortage of experts with sufficient skills.… The U.S. government cannot afford so much duplication of effort. There are not enough experienced experts to go around. The duplication also places extra demands on already hard-pressed single-source national technical intelligence collectors like the National Security Agency... A "smart" government would integrate all sources of information to see the enemy as a whole. Integrated all-source analysis should also inform and shape strategies to collect more intelligence .…
Members of the U.S. Intelligence Community
Office of the Director of Central Intelligence, which includes the Office of the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence for Community Management, the Community Management Staff, the Terrorism Threat Integration Center, the National Intelligence Council, and other community offices The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which performs human source collection, all-source analysis, and advanced science and technology • National Security Agency (NSA), which performs signals collection and analysis • National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), which performs imagery collection and analysis • National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), which develops, acquires, and launches space systems for intelligence collection • Other national reconnaissance programs • Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) of the Department of Defense • Intelligence entities of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines • Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) of the Department of State • Office of Terrorism and Finance Intelligence of the Department of Treasury • Office of Intelligence and the Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence Divisions of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice • Office of Intelligence of the Department of Energy • Directorate of Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection (IAIP) and Directorate of Coast Guard Intelligence of the Department of Homeland Security p. 408 The need to restructure the intelligence community grows out of six problems that have become apparent before and after 9/11:
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