Intelligence Issues for Congress
Contents
Most Recent
Developments.........................................................................................................1
Background and Analysis
............................................................................................................1
Intelligence
Community........................................................................................................2
The “INTs”: Intelligence Disciplines
.....................................................................................4
Other “INTs”...................................................................................................................6
Integrating the “INTs”...........................................................................................................6
Intelligence Budget Process
..................................................................................................7
The 9/11 Investigations and the Congressional
Response.......................................................8
Oversight
Issues..................................................................................................................10
Ongoing Congressional
Concerns..............................................................................................10
Collection Capabilities
........................................................................................................10
Analytical
Quality...............................................................................................................
11
The Intelligence Community and Iraq and
Afghanistan........................................................12
International
Terrorism........................................................................................................13
Intelligence Support to Military
Forces................................................................................14
Issues in the 111th
Congress.......................................................................................................14
Quality of Analysis
.............................................................................................................14
ISR
Programs......................................................................................................................14
Terrorist Surveillance Program/NSA Electronic
Surveillance/FISA .....................................15
Role of the
CIA...................................................................................................................18
Role of the FBI
...................................................................................................................18
The Role of the Under Secretary of Defense for
Intelligence ...............................................18
Paramilitary Operations and Defense Humint
......................................................................19
Regional Concerns
..............................................................................................................19
CIA and Allegations of Prisoner
Abuse................................................................................19
Congressional Notification Procedures
................................................................................20
Civilian Intelligence Personnel
System................................................................................20
109th Congress Legislation
........................................................................................................20
110th Congress Legislation
........................................................................................................21
111th Congress Legislation
........................................................................................................22
For Additional Reading
.............................................................................................................22
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