Date:
10 November 2008
Author(s):
Steve Slick (Intelligence Programs and Reform Directorate)
Classification Level:
UNSPECIFIED
Citation:
National Security Council. Executive Office of the President. Intelligence Reform and New Ways to Do Intelligence. Steve Slick. Transition 5969.
Transition Memo:
Transition 5969 –Intelligence Reform and New Ways to Do Intelligence
Intelligence Reform and New Ways to Do Intelligence
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Chronology for Intelligence Reform and New Ways to Do Intelligence
National Security Presidential Directive/NSPD-5 on Intelligence (May 9, 2001)
National Intelligence Council's Key Judgments on Iraq's Continuing Program for Weapons of Mass Destruction (October 2002)
Date: 2 August 2004
Author(s): George W. Bush (speech) and White House staff (fact sheet)
Description: Bush announces intelligence community reforms, per 9/11 Commission recommendations,and broader intelligence successes in War on Terror. Fact sheet specifies Bush reforms pre-and post-9/11 Commission as well as future goals.
9/11 Commission Report, How to do it? A Different Way of Organizing the Government, Chapter 13 (July 2004)
Executive Order 13328 on Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (February 11, 2004)
Remarks by President and Fact Sheet on Intelligence Reform (August 2, 2004)
Executive Orders 13353, 13354, 13355, and 13356 on Intelligence (August 2004)
Date: (assumed released alongside transition memo) 10 November 2008
Author(s): (assumed) Steve Slick
Description: Outlines chronology of Bush administration’s intelligence reform, including pre-9/11 review, Iraq intel blunder, post-Iraq reforms, post-9/11 structural changes.
Date: 11 February 2004
Author(s): George W. Bush (Executive Order)
Description: Executive Order establishing commission evaluating America’s ability to detect hostile WMD programs. Commission to work with Secretary of Defense, Attorney General, and Director of Central Intelligence after completion for implementation
Date: 22 July 2004
Author(s): 9/11 Commission Members
Description:Outlines need to reorganize intelligence apparatus to prevent terrorist attacks, listing new commissions and streamlined organizational/personnel structures.
Date: 1 September 2004 –all four organized together.27 August 2004 –Orders each signed individually.
Author(s): George W. Bush (executive orders)
Description:13353 –Establishing the President’s Board on Safeguarding Americans’ Civil Liberties, aimed at securing privacy and individual freedoms in midst of terror prevention policies.13354 –Establishes National Counterterrorism Center to consolidate counterterrorism.13355 –Strengthened Management of the Intelligence Community, including strengthening Director of Central Intelligence’s powers and defining responsibilities.13356 –Strengthening the Sharing of Terrorism Information to Protect Americans, aimed at coordinating agency responses to stop terrorism while protecting civil liberties
Date: 18 November 2004
Author(s): George W. Bush (Presidential Directive)
Description: CIA charged with rebuilding analysis, enhancing human intelligence sources, strengthening language capabilities, diverse hires for espionage, operation rebalancing, information coordination. Directs intelligence sharing; strengthening of powers; analyst increases for WMD, Near East and South Asia; language skill hires.
Date: 9 May 2001
Author(s): George W. Bush (National Security Presidential Directive)
Description: Director of Central Intelligence,Secretaries of Defense and State directed to conduct comprehensive intelligence review. Review meant to challenge status quo and look for innovation opportunities to meet 21st-century challenges and streamline structures.
Date: October 2002
Author(s): National Intelligence Council
Description: Key judgments of U.S. intel community on Iraqi WMD development. Report judges continued nuclear development, uranium acquisition, biological and chemical capabilities, Iraqi obfuscation of efforts. State Department intelligence (INR) dissenting opinions listed.
Presidential Directive on Strengthening Central Intelligence Agency Capabilities (November 18, 2004)
Presidential Directive on Further Strengthening Federal Bureau of Investigation Capabilities (November 18, 2004)
Date: 17 December 2004
Author(s): George W. Bush (speech)
Description: Bush signs into law aforementioned act, highlighting new threats, need for change, basics of policy, impact of reforms.
Remarks by President on Signing of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (December 17, 2004)
Remarks by President at Swearing-in of America's First Director and Deputy Director of Intelligence (May 18, 2005)
Letter from the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (March 31, 2005)
Fact Sheet Summarizing Actions to Implement the WMD Commission Recommendations (June 29, 2005)
Date: 18 November 2004
Author(s): George W. Bush (Presidential Directive)
Description: Charges FBI to improve information sharing, cooperation, counterterror activity. Mandates creation of integrated intelligence cadre, funding for FBI Intelligence Directorate. Prioritizes preemption, prevention, and disruption of terrorism.
Date: 29 June 2005
Author(s): White House staff
Description: WMD Commission recommendations taken by the Bush administration, including counterproliferation, information sharing, new positions, congressional oversight. Declares reforms a broad transformation of government institutions to meet new threats.
Date: 31 March 2005
Author(s): Signed by: Laurence H. Silberman, Charles S. Robb, Richard C. Levin, John McCain, Henry S. Rowen, Walter B. Slocombe, William O. Studeman, Patricia M. Wald, Charles M. Vest, Lloyd Cutler
Description:Commission’s report on U.S. WMD intel capabilities. States U.S. was catastrophically wrong on Iraq (due to procedural failures, but not deliberate distortion). Recommends DNI powers, FBI’s full inclusion into intel community, pressuring intel community for better work, President’s Daily Brief redesign
Date: 18 May 2005
Author(s): George W. Bush (speech)and John Negroponte (speech)
Description:Bush welcomes Negroponte to Director of National Intelligence position and Gen. Hayden to Deputy Director position. Qualifications and responsibilities outlined. Negroponte thanks Bush for appointment.
Executive Order 13462 on President's Intelligence Advisory Board and Intelligence Oversight Board (February 29, 2008)
Date:Originally published December 1981, amended 2003, 2005, 2008
Author(s):Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush (Executive Order and Amendments)
Description: Document includes E.O. 12333, amended by Bush most recently in 2008. 1981 document established NSA’s authority under executive branch.
Executive Order 12333 on U.S. Intelligence Activities, as Amended (July 2008)
Date: 29 February 2008
Author(s): George W. Bush (Executive Order)
Description: Aimed at giving those responsible for national security the best information possible through the new President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. Outlines scope and structure, mandates of PIAB.