2. Domestic intelligence must remain within the scope of the FBIs mission.

1. FBI has the most integrated resource: Information, data, and personnel. Domestic
intelligence remains within the scope of FBIs mission could cooperate with law
enforcement. With more resource sharing, both wings tasks could be more efficient.
2. It is a lot harder to do intelligence work than doing criminal work. The tasks are
going to be much harder if the intelligence wing get separated from FBIs mission
scope.

3. FBI must focus on law enforcement and cede domestic intelligence to a new,
specialized agency.
1. FBI bends to a law enforcement role. The FBI hires and promotes based on law
enforcement criteria, it builds cases rather than preventing threats, and it keeps
information secret rather than getting it to those who can use it to stop the
terrorists. A new, specialized agency could work more effectively.
2 FBI agents prefer to do criminal cases rather than doing any intelligence tasks
because those tasks are often no clear right or wrong answer, no closure on
intelligence work. FBI Agents dont have the autonomy to do the intelligence work.
In a new, specialized agency, agents are more specialized to intelligence work and
have the autonomy.

4. I would cede domestic intelligence to a new, specialized agency.

1. A new, specialized agency could have more information sharing and coordination
with other defense intelligence agency.
2. A new, specialized agency will have more authority and freedom to work on tasks
than being a wing of FBI.
3. It is hard and complicated for a single agency to have 2 top priorities. Dual
responsibility brought certain tensions to FBI. Separating domestic intelligence from
FBI could make intelligence the top priority of the new agency, and FBI can be only
focusing on law enforcement. It can solve the conflict between Intelligence
Committee and Judiciary Committee within FBI. Thus both agencies will have clear
goals and work more efficient.

2007

1. The Attorney General gave Department of Justice new marching orders:

Prevent first and prosecute second. FBI Director Mueller set up new priorities
after 9/11 attacks. Protect the U.S from terrorist attack become the first
priority of the top 10 FBI priorities. Because national security is much more
important than any other law cases, terrorism attacks are the most harmful
thing to the country. Transforming the FBI into an intelligence-led, threatbased national security organization can prevent threats from happening.
2. Intelligence-led mean that FBI is going to look at threats in the U.S. and
determine how to address gaps in our understandings of those threats. By
mapping terrorist domains and detecting terrorist activities, Intelligence office
can assess the potential threats in a region and then build an intelligencegathering strategy to mitigate those threats.
Threat-based is an approach to learn more about an identified terrorist
organizations activity even in the absence of active cases. Also, this
approach would apply to criminal investigations, not just counterterrorism or
counterintelligence activity.
Law enforcement is a reaction to solve the issues after a criminal case
happened. Judgments are involved in the cases, and the cases often have
closure. However, intelligence is a proactive approach to prevent issues
before it is happened and there is no closure on intelligence work.
3. Mueller moved to centralize the FBIs counterterrorism program, because he
believed that centralization would ensure that field offices coordinated
activity and shared information when they tackled terrorism cases. He built
an analyst corps in the field to gather intelligence, spot and prioritize gaps in
intelligence, and evaluate field office performance in closing those gaps.
Mueller upgraded information technology in bureau to support a strong
domestic intelligence service. Under Muellers leadership, FBI changed its
training from focusing on law enforcement to focus more on counterterrorism
and counterintelligence. In 2005, National security Branch was formed to
enhance national security.
The obstacles will be the improperly use of national security letters in FBI.
The letters has shown mistakes, carelessness, confusion, sloppiness, lack of
training, lack of adequate guidance and lack of adequate oversight, but
denied wrongdoing. Mueller had to develop new guidelines, rules, training,
and tracking systems related to NSLs.
2009
1. Strategic Management System is a system to define FBIs Strategy more
clearly, clarity priorities, establish objectives against which progress could
be measured, upgrade intelligence operations in field offices, and give a
new way to monitor progress in the field. The strategy map laying out
the objectives in expectations; resources; internal process; and talent and
technology had helped FBI divisions communicate their strategy, prioritize
initiatives, measure progress, and identify each persons role in pursuing

the divisions strategy.. The strategic map also gave the FBI a hierarchy of
objectives that were linked to specific metrics and were increasingly tied
to individual performance reviews and budget requests.
2. Strategic Execution Teams field intelligence is important for
implementing Muellers new vision because many of the threats FBI faces
are regionally, nationally, and internationally networked and cannot fully
be understood by looking through the lens of a single program or office.
The field intelligence group can help the field office and FBI Headquarters
see the full picture.
3. The Strategic Performance session act as a supervisor of field offices. SPSs
evaluate the quality of field reports; review the field offices intelligence
and operational performance. SPSs improved the report quality and work
effectiveness of the field offices.
Mueller feel SPSs are necessary because without a supervision
mechanism, the quantity and quality of intelligence were poor, field
officers would be negligent.