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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 18, 2003
Contact Arnold Donahue, (202) 347-3190
Washington, DC - June 18, 2003 - "Overall,
the FBI has made good progress in transforming its operations
to preventing terrorism, espionage and cyber crimes before
the fact rather than simply focusing on investigating crimes
after the fact. However, while information sharing has clearly
improved, we can't tell how rich the information exchange
process is. And you can't connect the dots if you don't have
all the dots," testified Dick Thornburgh, former U.S.
Attorney General and chair of a panel at the National Academy
of Public Administration (NAPA) commissioned by Congress to
track the progress of the FBI reorganization. Thornburgh,
speaking before the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice,
and State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies, gave an overview
of NAPA's in-depth review. (See www.napawash.org for complete
testimony.)
"But much remains to be done,"
Thornburgh continued, "including institutionalizing long-term
cultural change, continuing the upgrade of information technology,
and improving the gathering, analysis and sharing of intelligence
information. The transformation should be well along in three
to four years, though it will take longer to fully accomplish
all of its goals."
Areas reviewed by the panel included:
counterterrorism, information technology, reengineering, science
and technology, security, records management, investigative
technology, drug enforcement and the newly formed Cyber Division
at the FBI.
Others serving on NAPA's FBI Reorganization
Panel include: Robert Alloway (Director, National Leadership
Task Force on Y2K), Frank Chellino (former Special Agent in
Charge of DEA's Miami Field Division), Martin Faga (President
and CEO of the MITRE Corporation), Kristine Marcy (Consultant
with McConnell International, LLC), Robert O'Neill, Jr. (Executive
Director, International City/County Management Association)
and Harold Saunders (Director of International Affairs at
the Kettering Foundation).
The National Academy of Public Administration
is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan corporation chartered
by Congress to provide "trusted advice" on issues
of governance and public management.
Click
here for the full testimony.
Click
here for the summary.
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