EXECUTIVE ORDER #1 - ISSUED BY PRESIDENT GREG WILLIAMS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2004
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Executive Order-

Strengthened Management of the Intelligence Community and Creation of a National Intelligence Director

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, including section 103�(8) of the National Security Act of 1947, as amended (Act), and in order to further strengthen the effective conduct of United States intelligence activities and protect the territory, people, and interests of the United States of America, including against terrorist attacks, it is hereby ordered as follows:

The President intends to give the NID full budget authority over the National Foreign Intelligence Program appropriation and the management tools necessary to successfully oversee the Intelligence Community, including ensuring the full integration of foreign and domestic intelligence.

The President seeks intelligence reform legislation that is consistent with the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. On August 2, the President endorsed many of the 9/11 Commission's recommendations -- including the Commission's recommendation of the creation of a National Intelligence Director (NID)


The President herein establishes that the NID will serve as a cabinet level position and will help ensure the implementation of a joint, unified national intelligence effort to protect national and homeland security.

The NID will advise the National work on setting requirements, financial management, establishing uniform intelligence policies, and monitoring and evaluating performance of the Intelligence Community.



Structure of the National Intelligence Director -- The NID will:

Report to the President, be appointed by the President, be confirmed by the Senate, serve at the pleasure of the President, and testify before Congress;
Act as the principal advisor to the President, the National Security Council, and the Homeland Security Council for intelligence matters relating to the national security; and will serve as a functioning member of the Presidential Cabinet.

General Powers of the National Intelligence Director -- The NID will:

Serve as the head of the United States Intelligence Community.

Develop objectives and guidance for the Intelligence Community to ensure timely and effective collection, processing, analysis, and dissemination, including access by users to collected data and analytic products generated by or within the Intelligence Community, of national intelligence.

Determine and establish requirements and priorities for, and manage and direct the tasking of, the collection of intelligence by the Intelligence Community.

Resolve conflicts in collection requirements and the tasking of national collection assets of the Intelligence Community, and determine and establish intelligence analysis and production priorities for the Intelligence Community.


Budget Authority of the National Intelligence Director -- The NID will:

As recommended by the 9/11 Commission, receive the funds for the National Foreign Intelligence Program (NFIP) and allocate, as apportioned by the Office of Management and Budget, those funds to the Intelligence Community.

With respect to the NFIP budget, approve annual budgets for the Intelligence Community and determine, develop, and present -- with the advice of the heads of departments -- the intelligence budget request for the approval of the President.

Have the authority to transfer or reprogram funds within the NFIP and to review, and approve or disapprove, consistent with the existing authorities of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, any proposal to transfer or reprogram funds.

Intelligence Community Management Responsibilities of the NID -- The NID will:

Ensure the fullest and most prompt sharing of and access to information practicable, with special emphasis on detecting, preventing, preempting, and disrupting terrorist threats and attacks against the United States, its people, property and interests.

Establish standards, policies, and programs within the Intelligence Community;
Supervise the National Counterterrorism Center and oversee all new national centers, including potentially a future National Center to Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Proliferation.

Ensure that appropriate agencies and departments have access to and receive all-source intelligence support needed to carry out their own missions as well as to perform independent, alternative analysis.

Establish within the Director's office a National Intelligence Council to produce national intelligence estimates and evaluate Intelligence Community-wide collection and production of intelligence.

Provide guidance and issue tasking to the Intelligence Community, and
Assume the functions of the current Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) as head of the Intelligence Community, to include the coordination of the activities of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Department of Defense (DoD) intelligence agencies, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) intelligence and counterterrorism activities, and relevant parts of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).


Personnel Authorities of the National Intelligence Director -- The NID will:

Have a role in the appointment of any individual to a position that heads an organization or element within the Intelligence Community. If the appointment is made by an agency head, the agency head must receive the concurrence of the National Intelligence Director. If the appointment to such position is made by the President, any recommendation to the President to nominate or appoint an individual to that position shall be accompanied by the recommendation of the National Intelligence Director.

Under the President's plan, the Intelligence Community structure would:
Be led by the National Intelligence Director, who will have authority over the budget and collection objectives and will coordinate the foreign and domestic activities of the Intelligence Community. The intent of the other national intelligence agencies in this reform will be the eventual inclusion into one large National Intelligence Department, inclusive of former divisions with the DoD and other exogenous centers.

Implementing, by Executive Order, many of the 9/11 Commission's recommendations for intelligence reform. The President, on August 27, signed executive orders giving the Director of Central Intelligence many of the strengthened management powers over the Intelligence Community that will eventually belong to the NID. He also established a National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) to serve as a central knowledge bank on known and suspected terrorists and international terror groups, as well as their goals, strategies, capabilities, and networks of contacts. The NCTC will also plan U.S. government-wide counterterrorism activities. The President also ordered that additional actions be taken to continue to improve the sharing of terrorism information among agencies and to improve our information technology architecture.

Defining the Department of Homeland Security (DHS): DHS brought together 22 entities and over 180,000 employees with critical homeland security missions and provided the Nation with a single Federal department with the primary mission to protect the homeland against terrorist threats. DHS launched the Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN), a real-time collaboration system to report incidents, crimes, and potential terrorist acts to federal, state, and local officials and the DHS Homeland Security Operations Center. The HSIN is now linked to all 50 states and more than 50 major urban areas.

Establishing the Terrorist Threat Integration Center (TTIC), integrating and analyzing terrorism threat-related information collected domestically and abroad, ensuring that intelligence and law enforcement entities are working together. The TTIC will be absorbed by the newly established National Counterterrorism Center.
Creating the Terrorist Screening Center to consolidate terrorist watchlists and provide 24/7 operational support for Federal and other government law enforcement personnel across the country and around the world. The Center ensures that government investigators, screeners, and agents are working off the same unified, comprehensive set of anti-terrorist information -- and that they have access to information and expertise that will allow them to act quickly when a suspected terrorist is screened or stopped.

Reforming the FBI: Herein the FBI shall serve to coordinate investigations along with the DHS on all matters of interstate policing and security. Domestic intelligence gathering however as a former subsidiary of the FBI will be transfered to the CIA, until a coordinated National Intelligence Department can be formulated. Further more all personell and budget supplied to this branch of the FBI will be sent to the CIA and under the coordinated watch of the new NID.

COMPOSITION.�The Office of the National In-
telligence Director is composed of the following: 13
��(1) The National Intelligence Director. 14
��(2) The Deputy National Intelligence Director. 15
��(3) The National Intelligence Council. 16
��(4) The national intelligence centers, including 17
the National Counterterrorism Center. 18
��(5) The Assistant National Intelligence Direc- 19
tor for Collection. 20
��(6) The Assistant National Intelligence Direc- 21
tor for Analysis and Production. 22
��(7) The Assistant National Intelligence Direc- 23
tor for Research, Development, and Acquisition. 24
��(8) The Assistant National Intelligence Direc- 25
tor for Military Support. 26
��(9) The Inspector General of the National In-
telligence Service. 2
��(10) The General Counsel of the National In- 3
telligence Service. 4
��(11) The Chief Information Officer of the Na- 5
tional Intelligence Service. 6
��(12) The Chief Financial Officer of the Na- 7
tional Intelligence Service. 8