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Former U.S. Officials Call for Domestic Intelligence Service Within FBI
A group of former officials from the CIA, FBI and U.S. Defense Department have called for expanded FBI capabilities to conduct domestic intelligence operations, the New York Times reported today (see GSN, Oct. 15). So far, the Bush administration has rejected proposals to create a new domestic intelligence agency and has instead conducted several small measures, such as creating a terrorist threat analysis center jointly operated by the CIA and FBI. Yesterday, former CIA senior official John MacGaffin and former Deputy Defense Secretary John Hamre told a commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that a new domestic intelligence service should be established within the FBI and managed by the head of the CIA. The group of former officials has proposed that agents of the new FBI domestic intelligence service focus solely on intelligence and counterterrorism, and not be used for criminal investigations. That would represent a major cultural shift within the bureau, where agents consider themselves law enforcement officials first, the Times reported. “You need bureau officers who are not law enforcement officers, but are intelligence officers,” said former CIA counterterrorism chief and group member Paul Redmond, “They would come to work every day to penetrate organizations, not to arrest somebody,” he said (James Risen, New York Times, Dec. 9).
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