9-11 Act
Latest action · Sep 15, 2004 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedSep 15, 2004
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Intelligence Reformation Act of 2004 or 9-11 Act - Establishes as an executive department the Department of Intelligence (Department), headed by a Director of Intelligence. Requires the Director to: (1) serve as head of the Intelligence Community (IC); (2) act as principal adviser to the President for intelligence-related activities of the U.S. Government; and (3) determine the annual budget for U.S. intelligence and intelligence-related activities.
Establishes a National Counterterrorism Center to, among other things: (1) analyze and integrate all U.S. intelligence pertaining to terrorism or counterterrorism; (2) conduct strategic planning for counterterrorism operations; and (3) ensure that all appropriate U.S. departments, agencies, and elements have access to and receive all-source intelligence support to execute their counterterrorism plans. Requires the Director to establish one or more national intelligence centers to address intelligence priorities established by the National Security Council (established under this Act). Establishes various positions under the Director.
Designates the following as elements of the Department, with specified intelligence-related duties: (1) the Central Intelligence Agency; (2) the National Security Agency; (3) the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency; (4) the National Reconnaissance Office; and (5) the Intelligence, Counterterrorism, and Counterintelligence Offices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Establishes within the Department an Office of Civil Liberties and Privacy.
Requires the FBI Director to continue efforts to develop and maintain an FBI national security workforce.
Outlines national security authorities of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, including imagery intelligence and improving the means of navigating vessels of the Navy and merchant marine. Authorizes such Agency's Director to provide foreign countries with imagery intelligence and geospatial information support, and to exchange mapping, charting, and geodetic data with foreign countries and international organizations.
Authorizes the Director to withhold from the public certain Department operational files.
Provides for transfer to the Department of certain IC elements, authorities, and functions.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 15, 2004Introduced in Senate
- Sep 15, 2004Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
- Sep 15, 2004Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9288)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.
- Administrative fees
- Administrative procedure
- Advice and consent of the Senate
- Aerial photography
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Cabinet officers
- Central Intelligence Agency
- Chief financial officers
- Chief information officers
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Classified defense information
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Consultants
- Counterintelligence
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Criminal investigation
- Data banks
- Delegation of powers
- Department of Defense
- Department of Energy
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of Justice
- Department of State
- Department of the Treasury
- Disciplining of employees
- Dismissal of employees
- EBB Terrorism
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Electronic data interchange
- Electronic government information
- Electronic surveillance
- Employee training
- Employee-management relations in government
- Executive reorganization
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- Federal employees
- Federal law enforcement officers
- Federal-local relations
- Federal-state relations
- Freedom of information
- Geodesy
- Geographic information systems
- Government attorneys
- Government contractors
- Government liability
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government procurement
- Government publications
- Government publicity
- Governmental investigations
- Higher education
- Information networks
- Information technology
- Inspectors general
- Intelligence community staff
- Intelligence officers
- International Affairs
- International agencies
- International cooperation
- Labor and Employment
- Labor unions
- Language and languages
- Law
- Licenses
- Maps
- Meteorology
- Military intelligence
- Military readiness
- Military training
- Minorities
- Minorities in government
- Minority employment
- Navigational aids
- Officer personnel
- Official secrets
- Performance measurement
- Personnel management
- Planning-programming-budgeting
- Police training
- Presidential appointments
- Promotions
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Reconnaissance aircraft
- Reconnaissance satellites
- Recruiting of employees
- Remote sensing
- Reprogramming of appropriated funds
- Research and development
- Right of privacy
- Salaries
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Searches and seizures
- Security classification (Government documents)
- Security clearances
- Space activities
- Standards
- Strategic planning
- Student aid
- Telecommunication systems
- Terrorism
- Transfer of employees
- Transportation and Public Works
- Whistle blowing
- Women
- Women in government
- Women's employment
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