Previous Politech message: "Bush lauds TTIC data-mining plan during speech to FBI today" http://www.politechbot.com/p-04463.html --- http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0503/052303td1.htm Lawmakers wary of new terrorist threat center By Maureen Sirhal May 23, 2003 Several key lawmakers have warned an independent commission assembled to study the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that the CIA should not oversee a new anti-terrorism center designed to integrate domestic and foreign intelligence data. Congress required the Homeland Security Department to implement a system for analyzing information on terrorist threats, but a separate entity known as the Terrorist Threat Integration Center (TTIC) is housed within the CIA and will serve as a central repository for all government intelligence information. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., said the Bush administration unwisely placed that center there. "The administration has ... created a weak intelligence-analysis unit inside the department and a brand new threat-integration center under the command of the director of central intelligence," Lieberman told the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, also known as the 9-11 Commission. "I fear it will not do what is necessary to prevent further terrorism from occurring." ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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