9-11 Memorial Intelligence Reform Act

Bill: 108-s-1520
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Bob [D-FL]
Introduced: 2003-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Advice and consent of the Senate
Awards, medals, prizes
Cabinet officers
Central Intelligence Agency
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Classified defense information
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional committee membership
Congressional committees (House)
Congressional committees (Senate)
Congressional investigations
Congressional joint committees
Congressional oversight
Congressional reorganization
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Counterintelligence
Covert operations
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Justice
Disciplining of employees
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic surveillance
Employee training
Executive orders
Executive reorganization
Extradition
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal advisory bodies
Federal budget process
Federal employees
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal officials
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
House Intelligence
Immigration
Information technology
Inspectors general
Intelligence community staff
Intelligence officers
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Language and languages
Law
Legislation
Military intelligence
Officer personnel
Paramilitary forces
Performance measurement
Planning-programming-budgeting
Presidential appointments
Promotions
Rating of employees
Recruiting of employees
Science, Technology, Communications
Searches and seizures
Security classification (Government documents)
Senate Intelligence
September 11, 2001
Special forces (Military science)
State-sponsored terrorism
Technological innovations
Terrorism
Treaties
Visas
Weapons of mass destruction

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-31
text: 
9-11 Memorial Intelligence Reform Act - Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to establish: (1) an Office of the Director of National Intelligence (Office); (2) a Director of National Intelligence (Director); (3) a Deputy Director of National Intelligence; (3) a Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Community Management; (4) a National Intelligence Council; (5) Assistant Directors of National Intelligence for Collection, Analysis and Production, and Administration; (6) a General Counsel to the Director; and (7) an Inspector General of the Intelligence Community.
 
Renames the Director of Central Intelligence the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Provides for the coordination of functions and responsibilities between the Office and Director and the Central Intelligence Agency and its Director.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Director of National Intelligence should be a Cabinet-level officer.
 
Directs the President to establish priorities for the intelligence, intelligence-related, and counterterrorism activities of the Government.
 
Requires the: (1) National Security Council to prepare a Government-wide strategy for combating terrorism; (2) National Intelligence Officer on Terrorism to be included on the National Intelligence Council; (3) Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to enhance FBI counterterrorism capabilities; (4) Director of National Intelligence, Attorney General, and Secretary of Homeland Security to report on reforms in domestic intelligence programs and activities; (5) Attorney General to provide training to intelligence community personnel in addressing terrorist threats; (6) Director to improve and enhance the quality of personnel of the intelligence community, and to report on the budgeting and funding of Federal intelligence and counterterrorism activities; and (7) enhancement of access to relevant intelligence information among Federal agencies and of intelligence community accountability in the performance of intelligence activities.
 
Requires the Director to: (1) establish the National Terrorist Watchlist Center; and (2) enhance efforts to identify the support or involvement of foreign governments in terrorist activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Intelligence.
action_date: 2003-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate