FBI told its cyber surveillance programs have actually not gone far enough - The Guardian | Report Cites ‘Significant Gap’ in FBI's Intelligence Goals, Practices - VOA

FBI told its cyber surveillance programs have actually not gone far enoughby Spencer Ackerman in New York and Alan Yuhas in Washington

Wednesday March 25th, 2015 at 5:33 PM

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In-house 9/11 Review Commission calls for further expansion of informant and cyber surveillance networks but largely ignores domestic intelligence gathering

An in-house review of the FBI has found the agency failing to go far enough in its expansion of physical and cyber surveillance programs, urging the bureau to recruit deeper networks of informants and bring its technological abilities up to pace with other intelligence agencies.

While billed as a damning critique of the FBI, the in-house assessment known as the 9/11 Review Commission primarily attacks the bureau for not moving fast enough to become a domestic intelligence agency, precisely the direction in which the FBI has pivoted since the 2001 terror attacks.

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Citing a “significant gap” in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) intelligence goals and actual practices, a new report contends the bureau should beef up its ranks of analysts and linguists and better integrate analysis and criminal investigations to improve national security. “The FBI: Protecting the Homeland in the 21st Century,” released Wednesday, acknowledged the agency’s progress on intelligence sharing, one of the recommendations developed after terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. But the report to FBI Director James Comey still found the agency wanting.  The agency needs to better mesh its intelligence collection and analysis with its criminal investigations, it said: “This imbalance needs urgently to be addressed to meet growing and increasingly complex national security threats, including from adaptive and increasingly tech-savvy terrorists, more brazen computer hackers and more technically capable global cyber syndicates.” New threats are rapidly growing in “numbers, scope and lethality,” Tim Roemer, one of the report’s authors, said in addressing reporters Wednesday. Roemer is a former congressman from the Midwestern state of Indiana and a former ambassador to India. Reuters news agency reported him as saying the bureau also needs more support from the White House and Congress.  The report analyzed five threat scenarios, including the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and the Boston marathon bombing. In three cases, the crucial tip originated outside the FBI, Roemer told reporters, according to Reuters. Intelligence support “requires faster progress and deeper execution,” the 9/11 Review Commission said in its report.  “Except for the larger field offices, linguists … are still in short supply,” the 9/11 Review Commission said in its report. “… Hiring additional linguists and integrating them into operations should be a high priority.” The report said the FBI in April will roll out a pilot 20-week basic field training course for new agents and analysts that would provide more than “300 hours of integrated training, reinforced with joint practical exercises.” The training will be fully implemented in September, the report said.  “Many of the findings and recommendations in this report will not be new to the FBI. The Bureau is already taking steps to address them,” the authors wrote. “In 2015, however, the FBI faces an increasingly complicated and dangerous global threat environment that will demand an accelerated commitment to reform. Everything is moving faster.” National Security Correspondent Jeff Seldin contributed to this report from Washington

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