Joanne Accolla

From: Tom Eldridge [teldridge@9-11commission.gov]

it: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 11:23 AM
jacolla@9-11 commission.gov
Subject: FW: FACT SHEET: The Terrorist Screening Center

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Joanne --
Please print and put into the watchlist notebook.

Thanks. -- Tom

-Original Message-
From: Pat O'Brien [mailto|_ .Jgov]
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 9:40 AM..
To: teldridge@9-llCommission.gov
Subject: FW: FACT SHEET: The Terrorist Screening Center

here is the fact sheet I mentioned yesterday.

Also: I heard back from the tech folks -- the workstations are operational and ready to
go.

Pat 9/11 Personal Privacy

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Subject: FW: FACT SHEET: The Terrorist Screening Center

Original Message
From: Magnuson, Cynthia
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 2:15 PM
Subject: FACT SHEET: The Terrorist Screening Center

FACT SHEET
The Terrorist Screening Center

Today, Attorney General John Ashcroft, Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, Secretary
of State Colin Powell, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and Director of Central Intelligence
George Tenet announced the creation of the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) to consolidate
terrorist watchlists and provide 24/7 operational support for thousands of Federal
eeners across the country and around the world. The TSC will ensure that America's
/ernment screeners are working from the same unified set of anti-terrorist
informationHBCcomprehensive anti-terrorist list when a suspected terrorist is screened or
'stopped anywhere in the Federal system.

* Better Informed: The TSC will allow federal, state, and local
officials
~ • make better-informed decisions to protect the United States from terrorist attacks.
: example, better access to information will make it easier for a consular officer
t/osted in another country to determine whether to grant a visa, or an immigration official
at a U.S. airport to decide whether a person is eligible to enter the United States.

* Building Capabilities: Creation of the TSC marks another significant

step
forward in the President's strategy to protect America's communities and families by
detecting, disrupting, and disabling terrorist threats. The TSC builds on improvements to
U.S. watchlist capabilities that began in 2001, immediately following the September 11
attacks, including, most recently, the President's creation of the Terrorist Threat
Integration Center (TTIC).

* Consolidating Information: The TSC will receive the vast majority

of its
information about known or suspected terrorists from the TTIC after TTIC has assembled and
analyzed that information from a wide range of sources. In addition, the FBI will provide
the TSC with information about purely domestic terrorism, i.e., having no connection to
international terrorist activities. The TSC will consolidate this information into an
unclassified terrorist screening database and make the database accessible to queries for
federal, state, and local agencies for a variety of screening purposes.

* The TSC, through the participation of the Department of Homeland

Security,
Department of Justice, Department of State, and Intelligence Community representatives,
will determine which information in the Database will be available for which types of
screening.

* For example, The Attorney General's and the Secretary of Homeland

~ purity's representatives to the TSC will decide which persons to include in those
;ords that may be queried directly by law enforcement officials through the NCIC
udtabase. Similarly, the State Department representative, consulting with the Department
of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, and Intelligence Community representatives,
will determine which information may be screened by foreign governments.

* Safeguarding Information: The TSC will not independently collect

any
information on U.S. citizens. In fact, the TSC does not collect information at all - it
only receives information provided by the TTIC and the FBI. The TTIC will provide to the
TSC all appropriate and necessary information connected to international terrorism about
any individuals - U.S. citizens or not - that TTIC partner agencies hold pursuant to their
own authorities, and the FBI will provide to the TSC appropriate and necessary information
concerning domestic terrorism, regardless of whether it involves U.S. citizens. if the
TSC receives information on U.S. citizens connected with terrorism, its use of that
information is subject to the same legal limitations to which it would be subject if the
information were not included in the Database. Purely domestic terrorism information will
not go through TTIC, but will be placed directly into the TSC Database by the FBI. The
Attorney General has been directed to implement procedures and safeguards with respect to
information about U.S. persons, in coordination with the Secretary of State, the Secretary
of Homeland Security, and the Director of Central Intelligence.

* The creation of the TSC does not provide any new law enforcement or
collection powers to any government official; it simply consolidates information that law
enforcement, the Intelligence Community, the State Department, and others already possess
and makes it accessible for query to those who need it - federal security screeners, State
and local law enforcement officers, and others. The TSC will have no independent
authority to conduct intelligence collection or other operations.

*•• All information the TSC maintains will have been collected in
ordance
. xh existing law, and TSC officials will continue to be bound by any applicable laws and
constitutional requirements that restrict the use of that information and that protect
privacy interests and other liberties.
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* Information technology and information handling procedures will be
designed to comply with constitutional and other legal requirements, and participants will
continue to be answerable both to internal agency oversight and congressional oversight.

Supporting the Mission: The Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI")

will
administer the TSC. The Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State, and
others will coordinate with and assign operational and staff support to the TSC.

* The FBI is the appropriate administrator of the TSC's start-up

operations
because of the Bureau's technical experience in watchlist integration. Although the FBI
will administer the TSC, the TSC will be an interagency effort. As noted, the Departments
of Homeland Security and State and others will coordinate with and assign operational and
staff support to the TSC. The Principal Deputy Director of the TSC will be a Department of
Homeland Security official. In addition to the Department of Justice, the Department of
State, and the Department of Homeland Security, the Intelligence Community and other
federal agencies will assign representatives to the TSC. Each of these agencies will be
responsible for specific aspects of the TSC's work.

The TSC is being phased in via a coordinated interagency effort administered by the FBI
and will be operational by December 1, 2003.
Joanne Accolla
-e-om: mcoleman@9-1 1 commission, gov
,it: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 1 1 :59 AM
. o: Joanne Accolla
Cc: mcoffey@9-11commission.gov
Subject: Re: Teams 2 and 3 interview schedules

Joanne :
Team 3 will be interviewing the following:

9/24 Ken Pollack, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. at Brookings Institute (DB has lead) 9/25 Mark
Steinitz, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. MS, rm. 6510 (SA lead) 9/29 lit. General Gregory Newbold, 3:00
p.m. - 5:00 p.m. at K Street (BJ lead) 9/30 Amb. Donald Petterson, 11:00 - 2:00 p.m. at K
Street (SA lead)

Please be advised, interviews w/the following officials will be scheduled

during the 2nd week of October:

Tom Kuster
Austin Yamada ........... -• ., , ,
Prudence Bushnell ........................................................./ 9 / l i Personal Privacy
John Kornblum .................... ..... .......

Team 4 will be interviewing the following: /..........................V" \1 Closed by

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; me know if you need additional information.

Melissa - Can you provide me with contact information f o r |

Quoting Joanne Accolla <jaccolla©9-llcommission.gov>:

> Can you let me know please what your respective teams have scheduled
> over the next 3 weeks???

interested in dates f or [_
> (?) and| | - thanks.
>
>
>
> Joanne M. Accolla
>
> Staff Assistant
>
> National Commission on Terrorist
>
> Attacks Upon the United States
>
> 202.401.1774
>
> jaccolla@9-llcommission.gov
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Joanne Accolla

r~ -n: Peter Rundlet [prundlet@9-11commission.gov]

w .(.: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 1:25 PM
To: team6@9-11commission.gov
Subject: More Totals: NYFO and then NY+DC

More fun with numbers:

Total Breakdown of NYFO Interviews

Barbara: 24 interviews, 11 Write-ups (counting Ali as 2 & assuming Doug does 0).
Lance: 9 interviews, 7 Write-ups
Caroline: 17 interviews, 11 Write-ups
Mike: 22 interviews, 8 Write-ups
Peter: 23 interviews, 11 Write-ups

Tom: 3 interviews, 2 Write-ups

Janice: 4 interviews, 2 Write-ups
Azzarrello: 1 interview, 1 Write-up

TOTALS FOR THE WFO and NYFO combined:

Barjwa: 44 interviews, 19 Write-ups

Le 26 interviews, 18 Write-ups
Caio.me: 17 interviews, 11 Write-ups
Mike: 46 interviews, 20 Write-ups
Peter: 45 interviews, 23 Write-ups

Tamm: 12 interviews, 6 Write-ups

Kevin: 1 interview, 1 Write-up
Torn: 3 interviews, 2 Write-ups
Janice: 4 interviews, 2 Write-ups
Azzarrello: 1 interview, 1 Write-up

9/23/2003