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美国参议院司法委员会
改革21世纪的联邦调查局:重组和重新聚焦任务。[时间和换房]
2002年5月8日


尊敬的莱希
美国参议员,佛蒙特


This hearing marks the continuation of the Judiciary Committee�s series of bipartisan FBI oversight hearings that began last summer. We have considered the report of former Senator John Danforth on the Waco confrontation, the Webster Commission report on FBI security in the wake of the Hanssen espionage case, and the Justice Department Inspector General�s report on the belated disclosure of FBI documents in the Oklahoma City bombing case. We have heard the important perspectives of FBI agents and senior officials about what they believe the FBI must do to address morale and accountability problems, and to improve the Bureau�s security and counterespionage programs, computer systems, and information management practices. The Members of this Committee have paid close attention and on April 25, voted unanimously to report to the full Senate for consideration, the FBI Reform Act of 2002, S. 1974.

The risk of catastrophic terrorism � as we know so vividly from the 9/11 and anthrax attacks � has made amply clear that nothing is more critical to the safety of the American people than a well-organized and skillfully managed FBI that uses its power and resources effectively while adhering to the Constitution and the rule of law. The FBI has two key and overlapping missions: protecting our national security by rooting out spies and terrorists, and protecting our public safety by investigating criminal activity. Today�s hearing looks at how the FBI can reorganize and refocus its efforts to perform both missions with the resources made available by the President and the Congress.

预日至9月11个金博宝正规网址问题:在我看来,你不能有效地不知道哪里出了问题,在过去规划未来。之前,我们可以从最近的经验学到任何教训,我们需要通过检查发生了什么事制定教学计划。In devising a new counterterrorism strategy for the FBI to prevent future terrorist attacks, we need to determine whether any institutional flaws in the FBI impaired the government�s ability to prevent the 9/11 attacks. That is why I wrote to the Attorney General on October 25, 2001, requesting that relevant material be preserved, and on November 8, 2001, I recommended asking Judge Webster�s Commission to review the FBI�s pre-9/11 performance. While the Attorney General did not commission an outside review, this Committee has an obligation to understand the lessons of the 9/11 attacks for reorganizing the FBI and refocusing its mission.

This grave duty can only be discharged by the Committee responsible for oversight of the entire Bureau � its national security functions, its other law enforcement tasks, and the support structure within which both are performed. When Judge Webster came before us to describe the deficiencies in FBI security that allowed Robert Hanssen to spy for the Russians undetected for more than 20 years, he described the �institutional� vulnerabilities of the FBI as �shocking� and �devastating�� this from a former FBI and CIA Director. Likewise, when the Justice Department Inspector General told us that �widespread failures by the FBI� led to the belated disclosure of documents in the Oklahoma City bombing case, the FBI�s current Executive Assistant Director for Administration, Bob Chiradio, testified that the Director had made the IG�s report �recommended reading for all FBI management and supervisory personnel.�

In each case the FBI�s knee-jerk response before those reports came out was to minimize its responsibility. The American public was told Hanssen was �too smart to get caught.� The American people were told that computers, not people, caused the delay in the production of documents in the Oklahoma City case. Yet, the Webster Commission and IG reports made clear that FBI security flaws enabled Hanssen�s spying, and that bad judgment as well as computers contributed to the production delays in the Oklahoma City case. Indeed, in both cases it was more than that � a major participating cause was the deeply imbedded culture of the FBI.

今天,我们仍然在有关911次恐怖袭击,因为我们是在韦伯斯特委员会和IG报告前相同的位置。ReportsReports美国人民被告知阴谋家们太聪明,被抓。我们被告知,劫机者避免检测,因为他们结合精心策划和纪律,狂热和对美国是如何工作的丰富知识非凡的秘密。我们听到圈内自首会提供足够的远见,以阻止攻击的一员,没有什么短。

这些解释可能确实是正确的。然而,没有人会责怪美国公众想要审视这些解释。9/11事件的背后可能不只是敌人的技能,就像汉森的故事不只是他的才智,俄克拉荷马城文件的故事不只是电脑一样。当联邦调查局高级官员在这个委员会作证时承认,联邦调查局并不知道它所知道的一切时,我们不禁要问,联邦调查局是否有效地利用了它在911事件分水岭事件之前就知道的相关信息。

不断有媒体报导指称,联邦调查局未能ReportsReports有效追查9/11事件前的线索,包括有关两名劫机者的警告。就在上周,一份报告说,在9/11事件发生几个月前,联邦调查局凤凰城办公室担心美国飞行学校可能有恐怖分子。联邦调查局向委员会提供了一段来自原本属于机密的凤凰报告的单一段落,其中写道:

�Phoenix believes that the FBI should accumulate a listing of civil aviation universities/colleges around the country. FBI field offices with these types of schools in their area should establish appropriate liaison. FBIHQ should discuss this matter with other elements of the U.S. intelligence community and task the community for any information that supports Phoenix�s suspicions. FBIHQ should consider seeking the necessary authority to obtain visa information from the USDOS on individuals obtaining visas to attend these types of schools and notify the appropriate FBI field office when these individuals are scheduled to arrive in their area of responsibility.�

我希望局长能帮助我们追查这起事件的真相,包括查明联邦调查局的报告到底说了什么,发给了谁,以及是否采取了任何行动来回应联邦调查局的报告。

其他具有挑衅性的问题也需要探讨。据报道,在9/11袭击前不久,联邦调查局接到通知说,一个与“科尔”号爆炸案有关的人见过面的人带着一个同伙进入美国。联邦调查局开始搜寻这些人,但在他们劫持飞机撞向五角大楼之前没有找到他们。去年10月,司法部长阿什克罗夫特作证时,我问他是否有程序将这些人的名字列入航空公司的观察名单。他说没有。当然,接下来的问题是有什么不可以讨论的?现在有这样的程序吗?其他的问题是,联邦调查局采取了哪些步骤找到了这两名男子,以及招募其他机构参与搜寻工作花了多长时间?如果这些人的名字被列入航空公司的观察名单,或者联邦调查局更早地掌握了这些信息,会不会增加至少部分破坏袭击的可能性?

以下是一些我们已经知道的关于FBI行动的事情,这些行动可能会在9/11之前限制国家对恐怖主义的防御:

联邦调查局的信息管理和计算机系统存在严重缺陷,因此联邦调查局无法确切知道自己掌握了哪些信息。

联邦调查局的一些外地办事处运作非常独立,他们的信息无法与其他需要这些信息的部门共享,更不用说与其他机构共享了。

1999年,联邦调查局反恐项目的领导层被分为两个部门,恐怖主义分析人员由一个几乎没有国家安全或情报部门经验的调查服务部经理负责。

联邦调查局缺乏战略分析能力,无法从当前和过去的案件中收集信息,从其他机构获取信息,寻找模式,分析风险,为自己的行动规划战略,并满足负责安全措施的组织的需求。

� The FBI had no comprehensive terrorism watch list to bring together the names of all suspected foreign terrorists known to the FBI and other federal agencies.

� The FBI did not put any names of terrorist group members in the National Crime Information Center file that was designed years earlier to provide information about suspected terrorists to other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies.

联邦调查局缺乏翻译人员和具有必要的外语技能的特工来开发消息来源,进行有效的采访,阅读外国文件,以及监控国际恐怖主义案件中的电子监控。

美国人民和美国国会不应该听到有关的信息,如凤凰备忘录,因为它是通过媒体定期泄露到或发现。美国人民应得的这件事情一个完整的会计。

参议员哈奇和我进行了额外的资金共同请求的审查领导到9月11日的袭击事件,并需要采取措施,以确保我们的执法是在一个位置,不要让历史重演的。该请求已被阻止由少数党领袖洛特。FBI操作911之前的检查是必不可少的,不裁员指责,而是要吸取经验教训,在一个位置,以评估美国联邦调查局的重组计划。

我期待着与副检察长和主管穆勒的原因,重组和其他管理措施,他们有进行讨论。处长根据新的执行助理主任反恐/反间谍已经恢复了统一指挥,力求通过建立智能的办公室,以加强美国联邦调查局分析,贴在NCIC恐怖组织成员的身份,并下令全面恐怖主义的发展观察名单服务于执法和情报机构。这些都是重要的步骤。

At the same time, I am concerned about new management issues that directly affect the FBI�s counterterrorism role. For example, the Department appears to be developing two counterterrorism intelligence organizations � an FBI Office of Intelligence that brings together terrorism information from other agencies and other countries for a comprehensive FBI Terrorism Watch List and a separate Main Justice Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force that reports to the Deputy Attorney General. This new Main Justice Task Force plans to spend nearly $20 million for its own intelligence analysis projects, databases, and lookout list. Why is this Task Force reporting to the Deputy Attorney General, rather than to the FBI Director, who has the daily responsibility alongside the CIA Director to brief the President on terrorist threats? Would the best course be to make the Task Force mission and assets a vital part of the new FBI Office of Intelligence?

Another example, is the Justice Department�s maintenance of two separate systems for using the Internet to share information among law enforcement agencies and first responders � the FBI�s Law Enforcement OnLine (LEO) and the Justice Management Division�s Regional Information Sharing System (RISS). Has the time come to bring these programs together to meet the requirement for a unified, secure Internet system for sharing critical homeland security information with first responders?

Our nation�s counterterrorism and homeland security efforts are too important to allow these organizational issues to remain unresolved.

刑事调查问题:关于联邦调查局的其他刑事调查工作金博宝正规网址,委员会需要考虑总检察长和副检察长关于弱化联邦调查局某些任务的初步想法。3月6日,穆勒局长说,联邦调查局正在制定一项全面战略,永久性地将资源转移到打击恐怖主义的斗争中,并支持大规模的预防工作

联邦调查局不能将所有的东西给所有的人。很多时候我们对任何新的和重要的执法问题,第一反应是分配问题联邦调查局..太多劫车?太多的家庭暴力?太简单的药管?太多的过路车辆射击?答案早已建立联邦的处罚,并把FBI就可以了。一遍又一遍,每当国家面临新的或新出现的犯罪问题,美国已经转向了FBI来解决它,即使我们有其他精细联邦,州和地方警察和调查机构完全有能力解决这些问题的。

它证明了我们在FBI,我们把主席团所以本能的整体信心,但FBI不能作为有效的重点,当现场人员注意不断转移到问题只有FBI可以处理的问题这是重要的,但可以通过其他机构来处理。

我知道局长正面临着艰难的决定,即如何重新集中联邦调查局的任务并改组这个机构。这个委员会可能会对局长所作的决定提出尖锐的问题。但如果说近代史教会了我们什么的话,那就是提出这些棘手的问题符合美国人民的最大利益。

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