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Annual Report on the Access, Retention, Use and Dissemination of United States Person Information April 1, 2013 - September 30, 2015
"(U) This report, submitted in accordance with the 2012 AGGs reporting requirement, covers the activities of the National Counterterrorism Center [NCTC] from 1 April 2013 through 30 September 2015 (hereinafter 'the reporting period') and applies to NCTC's access to data through all three tracks of access -- Track 1 (account-based access on a data provider's native system), Track 2 (queries provided to a data provider for the data provider to run on its own systems) and Track 3 (NCTC replication of portions or the entirety of a dataset when necessary to identify the information that constitutes terrorism within the dataset). Note, the preceding annual report covered the period 23 March 2012, the day after the 2012 NCTC AGGs [Attorney General Guidelines] were signed, through 31 March 2013. This report addresses the entire period since the initial report through 30 September 2015. In doing so, NCTC is hereby adjusting the reporting period for future reports to a fiscal year (October 1 -- September 30) reporting period. (U) As of the end of the reporting period, NCTC had executed seven Terms and Conditions (T&Cs) under the 2012 AGGs for ten Track 3 datasets. The agreed upon retention periods were negotiated with the respective data providers and ranged in time from one to five years."
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
2015-09
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Strategic Framework for Addressing the Most Tactical of Problems: It's All About the Bad Guys
"Strategic challenges posed by nation states and evolving geopolitical trends have been, and will
be, with us forever. There have been some modifications in tradecraft and analytics, but the
nature of the problem set hasn't dictated any fundamental change in the way we do business.
But another challenge has emerged and we haven't adequately responded. Globalization has
empowered individuals like never before. Terrorism, proliferation, transnational organized
crime and financial fraud are certainly not new. But practitioners of those activities have been
supercharged and it is imperative that we posture ourselves accordingly to mitigate the threat.
The most tactical of problems - the actions of individual bad actors, can now have strategic
effects, so we'll need to improve our ability to discern who they are, and then catalogue their
identifiers, what they are doing, how they are doing it, and with whom they are connected. And
then we need to make sure that all elements of the Government with an appropriate interest can
make use of the information. It requires a new way of doing government-wide business,
patterned after lessons we have learned from our counter terrorism efforts. This article lays out a
strategic framework for addressing the most tactical of issues, the challenges posed by
transnational bad actors."
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
Travers, Russ
2015-08
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NCTC Fact Sheet--Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Section 702
"The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) recently approved minimization procedures that permit the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) to receive certain unevaluated counterterrorism information acquired pursuant to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978, as amended. [...] NCTC's handling of unevaluated Section 702-acquired counterterrorism information will be governed by standard minimization procedures adopted by the Attorney General and approved for use by the FISC. [...] These new procedures do not authorize NCTC to engage in targeting or acquisition. Rather, they authorize NCTC to receive certain intelligence information already collected by other agencies targeting non-U.S. persons outside the United States pursuant to Section 702 of FISA. NCTC is not authorized to receive so-called 'upstream' FISA collection."
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
2017
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Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) [Fact Sheet]
From the Document: "The Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) is the US Government's central repository of information on international terrorist identities. The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 established NCTC [National Counterterrorism Center] to serve as the 'central and shared knowledge bank on known and suspected terrorists and international terror groups.' TIDE, which contains both classified and unclassified information, is that knowledge bank. It supports the US Government's various terrorist screening efforts by supplying identities to the classified Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB), which resides in the FBI-led Terrorist Screening Center (TSC). The TSDB, commonly referred to as 'the Watchlist,' supplies databases 'downstream' with identifiers used for screening."
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
2019
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National Counterterrorism Center 2008 Report on Terrorism
This report is the 2008 annual report on terrorist incidents published by the National Counterterrorism Center of the United States of America. "Consistent with its statutory mission to serve as the United States (US) government's knowledge bank on international terrorism, the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) is providing the Department of State with required statistical information to assist in the satisfaction of its reporting requirements under Section 2656f of title 22 of the US Code (USC). The statistical information included in this Annex to the 2008 Country Reports on Terrorism is drawn from the data that NCTC maintains on the www.nctc.gov website. [...] To record and update attack records, NCTC continues to post information in the Worldwide Incidents Tracking System (WITS), the repository for the US government's authoritative database on terror attacks, which was unveiled in 2005. A data management system with a more comprehensive dataset than those used in years prior to 2004, WITS is accessible on the NCTC website at www.nctc.gov, offering the public an open and transparent view of the NCTC data. NCTC will ensure that the data posted to the website is updated as often as necessary by regularly posting information about new or prior attacks. Tracking and analyzing terrorist incidents can help us understand some important characteristics about terrorism, including the geographic distribution of attacks and information about the perpetrators, their victims, and other details. Year-to-year changes in the gross number of attacks across the globe, however, may tell us little about the international community's effectiveness either for preventing these incidents, or for reducing the capacity of terrorists to advance their agenda through violence against the innocent."
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
2009-04-30
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Remarks by the Honorable Michael E. Leiter, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, before the Aspen Institute, Washington, DC, April 9, 2009
These are the remarks by the Honorable Michael E. Leiter, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, before the Aspen Institute, Washington, DC, on April 9, 2009. From the text: "It is very nice to be here today, and I want to split my talk -- which I've been assigned 15 to 20 minutes and I will really try to honor that. It's in three parts. Very, very quickly I do want to give an overview of what I do at NCTC because although we've been around now for coming up on five years -- not yet five years -- I think it's important to remind people what we do because frankly, even the people with whom I work on a daily basis aren't always sure. Second, I want to focus most of my comments on the terrorism threat that I see today -- how it's changed, how it's morphed, and what we're facing I think into the future. And finally I want to at least touch on some of the challenges that I think we see in the coming years and how I think that the new administration is relatively well-postured to respond to those. And I think that will also be a good starting point for the questions, and I'm sure some folks especially, like Pam and Eric on my left have for me today."
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
Leiter, Michael
2009-04-09
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2011 Counterterrorism Calendar
The U.S. National Counterterrorism Center's 2011 calendar "contains information across a wide range of terrorism-related issues: terrorist groups, wanted terrorists, and technical pages on various threat-related topics. The Calendar marks dates according to the Gregorian and Islamic calendars, and contains significant dates in terrorism history as well as dates that terrorists may believe are important if planning attacks to commemorate particular events. The CT Calendar is designed as a ready reference guide for law enforcement, intelligence, military, and security personnel; contingency planners; or citizens concerned about terrorist threats."
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
2010-12
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Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE)
"The Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) is the U.S. Government's (USG) central repository of information on international terrorist identities. The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (IRTPA) of 2004 established NCTC [National Counterterrorism Center] in law, and mandated the Center serve as the 'central and shared knowledge bank on known and suspected terrorists and international terror groups.' TIDE is that knowledge bank and supports the USG's various terrorist screening systems or 'watchlists' and the US Intelligence Community's overall counterterrorism mission. The TIDE database includes, to the extent permitted by law, all information the USG possesses related to the identities of individuals known or appropriately suspected to be or to have been involved in activities constituting, in preparation for, in aid of, or related to terrorism (with the exception of purely domestic terrorism information). This information is available to counterterrorism professionals throughout the Intelligence Community, including the Department of Defense, via the web-based, read-only 'TIDE Online.'"
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
2014-08-01
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National Counterterrorism Center Report on Terrorist Incidents- 2006
"According to open-source information, approximately 14,000 terrorist attacks occurred in various countries during 2006, resulting in over 20,000 deaths. As compared with 2005, attacks in 2006 rose by 3,000, a 25 percent increase, while deaths rose by 5,800, a 40 percent increase. As was the case last year, by far the largest number of reported terrorist incidents and deaths occurred in the Near East and South Asia. These two regions also were the locations for 90 percent of the nearly 300 high-casualty attacks in 2006 that killed 10 or more people- only a total of five high-casualty attacks occurred in Europe-Eurasia, East Asia-Pacific, and the Western Hemisphere. Violence against noncombatants in eastern and sub-Saharan Africa, particularly related to attacks associated with turmoil in or near Sudan and Nigeria, rose 64 percent in 2006, rising to 422 from the approximately 256 attacks reported for 2005. The number of reported incidents in 2006 fell for Europe and Eurasia by 15 percent from last year, for South Asia by 10 percent, and for the Western Hemisphere by 5 percent. No high-casualty attacks occurred in Western Europe, and only one occurred in Southeast Asia, in the southern Philippines. In Indonesia, there were no high-casualty attacks and 95 percent fewer victims of terror in 2006."
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
2007-04-30
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NCTC and Information Sharing, Five Years Since 9/11: A Progress Report
"The performance of the United States Government in the years leading up to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 was hindered by inadequate information sharing between key agencies of the Federal government. The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (IRTPA) of 2004 assigned to the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) the responsibility 'to ensure the agencies, as appropriate, have access to and receive all-source intelligence products needed to execute their counterterrorism plans or perform independent, alternative analysis,' and 'to ensure that such agencies have access to and receive intelligence needed to accomplish their assigned activities.' NCTC statutory authorities are limited to sharing with Federal organizations. This report focuses on the progress that NCTC, working with its Federal partners, has made in the years since 9/11. It does not address the many efforts by other departments and agencies to improve information sharing at the Federal level and with non-Federal partners."
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
2006-09
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National Counterterrorism Center Report on Incidents of Terrorism 2005
This report provides statistical analysis and incident summaries in conjunction to the 2005 "Country Reports on Terrorism" released by the U.S. Department of State. Through understanding the trends, distribution, and target selection of terrorists in previous attacks, planners and researchers can develop better responses and preparation against future incidents.
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
2006-04-11
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NCTC Fact Sheet and Observations Related to 2005 Terrorist Incidents
"Terrorism remains a tactic used across all regions of the world. However, the Near East and South Asia were particularly hard hit, accounting for almost 75% of the attacks and 80% of the fatalities. Over 50% of noncombatant fatalities worldwide were in Iraq. Of the 40,000 individuals killed or wounded in terrorist attacks in 2005, several unique categories of noncombatants bore a significant brunt of terrorism: 6500 police, 1000 children, 300 government officials, 170 clergy/religious figures and 100 journalists were killed or wounded in 2005. At least 10,000-15,000 Muslims, mostly in Iraq, were the victims of terrorism. Bottom Lines for 2005: 11,100 terrorist incidents, 14,500 noncombatants killed (56 were Americans according to Department of State information), 25,000 wounded, 35,000 kidnapped. Counting terrorist incidents is an extremely complex exercise and draws on a series of counting rules described in detail on the NCTC website at www.nctc.gov."
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
2006
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Remarks by President Obama at the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC)
On October 6, 2009 President Obama spoke at the National Counterterrorism Center in McLean, Virginia. After a briefing and introduction by Director Michael E. Leiter, President Obama addressed the National Counterterrorism Center. "Because of you, and all the organizations you represent, we're making real progress in our core mission: to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al Qaeda and other extremist networks around the world. We must never lose sight of that goal. That's the principal threat to the American people. That is the threat that led to the creation of this Center. And that must be the focus of our efforts to defend the homeland and our allies, and defeat extremists abroad. We know that al Qaeda and its extremist allies threaten us from different corners of the globe - from Pakistan, but also from East Africa and Southeast Asia; from Europe and the Gulf. And that's why we're applying focused and relentless pressure on al Qaeda - by sharing more intelligence, strengthening the capacity of our partners, disrupting terrorist financing, cutting off supply chains, and inflicting major losses on al Qaeda's leadership. […] We also know that success against al Qaeda must go beyond destroying their network - it must be about the future that we want to build as well. And that's why we're putting forward a positive vision of American leadership around the world -- one where we lead by example, and engage nations and peoples on the basis of mutual interest and mutual respect."
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
2009-10-06
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Counterterrorism Calendar 2010
"The US National Counterterrorism Center presents the 2010 edition of the Counterterrorism (CT) Calendar. This edition, like others since the Calendar was first published in daily planner format in 2003, contains many features across the full range of terrorism-related topics: terrorist groups, wanted terrorists, and technical pages on various threat-related issues. The Calendar marks dates according to the Gregorian and Islamic calendars, and contains significant dates in terrorism history as well as dates that terrorists may believe are important if planning attacks to commemorate particular events. The CT Calendar is designed as a ready reference guide for law-enforcement, intelligence, military and security personnel, contingency planners, or simply citizens concerned by terrorist threats. The CT Calendar is oriented primarily to readers in the United States, but we hope it will also be useful for citizens of other countries."
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
2010
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Statement in Response to U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology Letter to the Office of the DNI
The National Counterterrorism Center issued this release in response to a letter and press release from the House of Representatives regarding the NCTC's information technology upgrade program. According to the NCTC, this Congressional letter "is inconsistent with the facts." This program, known as Railhead, has resulted in "no degradation in the capability to access, manage and share terrorist information during the life of the […] program." The statement closes by asserting that the NCTC has had no contact with the Subcommittee of the letter's author.
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
2008-08-22
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Role of the National Counterterrorism Center in the Global War on Terrorism
This presentation outlines the vision of the National Counterterrorism Center, its mission, and its many collaborative exchanges. NCTC has staff "assignees" from the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Department of Defense; Central Intelligence Agency; Department of Homeland Security; Department of State; and many others. Multiple contractors support NCTC - primarily in information technology and operational support roles. The presentation has an organizational chart followed by an illustration of how NCTC coordinates all elements of National Power (economic, diplomatic, military, homeland security, law enforcement; and intelligence). Another slide on Strategic Operational Planning (SOP) describes how SOP fills the gap between policy, strategy development and the execution of CT Operations. NCTC is designated as the primary organization in the United States Government for analyzing and integrating all intelligence pertaining to terrorism (except purely domestic terrorism). The next slide explains how NCTC facilitates information sharing by sponsoring multiple fora and mechanisms for the exchange of terrorism information. Lastly, it addresses how to enhance terrorism information integration and mission management and finishes with key challenges, primarily in intelligence business process issues, and government-wide business process issues.
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
Brock, Kevin
2006-03-01
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National Strategy to Combat Terrorist Travel
"The goal of the NSCTT is to fight terrorist travel globally. The NSCTT identifies eight key steps necessary to achieve that goal: 1. Identify known or suspected terrorists; 2. Ensure broad data sharing across the US Government and with partner Nations; 3. Screen travelers effectively both before reaching and at ports of entry into the United States; 4. Build partner capacity to limit and screen for terrorist travel; 5. Detect and apprehend terrorists who intend to enter, or who may have entered, the United States; 6. Dismantle infrastructures and networks that facilitate terrorist travel; 7. Strengthen travel and document security at home and abroad to ensure that terrorists cannot acquire documentation through legal or illicit means; [and] 8. Collect, analyze and disseminate all terrorist travel information to key consumers across the counterterrorism and law enforcement communities. In view of these findings, the NSCTT addresses two main topics. First, the NSCTT captures current US Government capabilities to confront the problem of terrorist travel around the globe. Second, the NSCTT recommends how the US Government should enhance or expand its capabilities to address the problem."
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
2006-05-02
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Counterterrorism 2006
The National Counterterrorism Center's 2006 Counterterrorism Calendar provides information on terrorist incidents throughout recent history along with information on key groups and people. In addition to providing the exact date and information on various terrorist incidents, it also includes "about" sections on terrorist groups and people such as: Al-Qa'ida, Usama Bin Ladin, Ali Saed Bin Ali El-Hoorie, Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, Adnan G. El Shukrijumah, Al-Qa'ida in Iraq, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, bomb threat stand-off distances, Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Jaber A. Elbaneh, Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA; a.k.a. Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna, and many, many more.
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
2006
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Counterterrorism 2015 Calendar
"The US National Counterterrorism Center [NCTC] is pleased to present the 2015
edition of the Counterterrorism (CT) Calendar. This edition, like others
since the Calendar was first published in daily planner format in 2003,
contains many features across the full range of issues pertaining to
international terrorism: terrorist groups, wanted terrorists, and technical
pages on various threat-related topics. The Calendar also marks dates that
terrorists may believe are important if planning attacks to commemorate
particular events.
Under US law, NCTC focuses exclusively on international terrorism.
There are other organized groups that engage in violent acts-some
are criminal organizations with no political or social agenda, and some
are domestic terrorist groups; however, this calendar reflects NCTC's
international focus. Senior Intelligence Community officials assess the
greatest international terrorist threats currently facing the United States
come from violent extremists inspired by al-Qa'ida, including its allies
and affiliates, who are committed to conducting attacks inside the United
States and abroad. These groups promote an ideology that presents
a radical vision of Islam that is not followed or endorsed by the vast
majority of Muslims.
Individuals portrayed in this calendar are all listed on the US
Government's Rewards for Justice site or on FBI sites devoted to
terrorism. These individuals have been either indicted or are being sought
for their involvement in international terrorism."
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
2015
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2007 Report on Terrorism
"Consistent with its statutory mission to serve as the U.S. Government's knowledge bank on international terrorism, the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) is providing this report and statistical information to assist academics, policy makers and the public in understanding the data. The statistical information included in this report is drawn from the data NCTC maintains on its website. This report includes a foreward, a methodology section, NCTC observations, statistical charts and graphs, summaries of high fatality attacks during 2007, and an academic letter on challenges to cataloging attacks."
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
2008-04-30
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National Counterterrorism Center: 2009 Report on Terrorism
"This statute requires the State Department to include in its annual report on terrorism 'to the extent practicable, complete statistical information on the number of individuals, including United States citizens and dual nationals, killed, injured, or kidnapped by each terrorist group during the preceding calendar year.' NCTC [National Counterterrorism Center] keeps statistics on the annual number of incidents of 'terrorism,' but its ability to identify the specific group responsible for each incident resulting in death, injury or kidnapping is significantly limited by the availability of reliable open source information, particularly when attacks involve few casualties or occur in remote regions of the world. Moreover, specific details regarding victims, perpetrators, damage or other elements of the incident are frequently not fully addressed in open source reporting. [...] Therefore, the statistical material in this report reflects the most comprehensive body of information available to NCTC for compiling data to satisfy the above-referenced statistical requirements and details incidents of 'terrorism' that occurred in 2009 as reported in open source information."
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
2010-04-30
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Terror Threat Picture and Counterterrorism Strategy: Transcript of Michael E. Leiter, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, addressing the Aspen Institute on June 20, 2010
From the remarks of Michael E. Leiter, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center: "The vast majority of what we do in the counterterrorism community on a daily basis on the intelligence side, on the preventative side. on the protect/defend side is utterly non-controversial. So I don't think - I think Americans should take some comfort in the fact that even though we had a change of administration and I think a change in many policies, the counterterrorism policies, some of which certainly changed - clearly, President Obama made a very powerful statement. I think. in the early days of the executive order to close Guantanamo Bay, and other practices. I hope people aren't disappointed - and I guess it depends in part on what part of the political spectrum you're on. Most of my work hasn't changed that much. Fundamentally, we are still trying to find people who are trying to hurt Americans, stop them using a variety of means, ranging from the Department of Defense overseas and the CIA to the FBI here and the Department of Homeland Security, and the nuts and bolts of that work has not changed tremendously, I think the one area that we have tried to change very, very particularly is some of the messaging and some of the counter-radicalization programs, and I think President Obama came in early on wanting to push that piece of the counterterrorism puzzle, and I think we've had some success doing that."
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
2010-06-20
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Remarks and Q&A by the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Mr. Michael E. Leiter: the American Bar Association - Standing Committee on Law and National Security, Washington, DC, May 6, 2009
From the remarks of Michael E. Leiter, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center: "Rather than running through the line and block charts of counterterrorism and what I do at the National Counterterrorism Center, what I wanted to do instead was hit really four major themes for this morning. And I want to go back and try to give some context for all of this because I'll go out on a limb here and suggest that our memory in the society, political society and thinking about national security, is not always a lengthy memory. And I think it is important to have some memory of the past to understand the challenges that we face today, how we have improved upon those issues, but also how those challenges continue. So my four themes are simply to talk about the foreign-domestic divide, which was so much the center of the tragedy of 9/11 and is so much the center of how we do our work at this National Counterterrorism Center, information-sharing, perhaps the single biggest theme hit during the 9/11 Commission report and following on, the issue of counterterrorism as a war versus a struggle, and then the last piece, that I'll just leave you all waiting to tell you about when I get there."
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
2009-05-06
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Bomb Threat Stand-Off Distances
This report provides information about bomb threat stand-off distances. This covers all types of explosives from pipe bombs with 5 pounds of TNT to a semi-trailer with 60,000 pounds of TNT. From the text: "This table is for general emergency planning only. A given building's vulnerability to explosions depends on its construction and composition. The data in these tables may not accurately reflect these variables. Some risk will remain for any persons closer than the Outdoor Evacuation Distance."
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
2005-10
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Updated NCTC Guidelines - Mission Justification Fact Sheet
"Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, the United States Government has made dramatic progress in information sharing -- particularly in sharing information once it is identified as terrorism information. However, the government continues to address the challenge of correlating disparate pieces of information that reside in various agency systems when the relevance of the information to terrorism is not readily apparent. The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) is the primary organization for analyzing and integrating all intelligence possessed or acquired by the government pertaining to terrorism and counterterrorism, excepting intelligence pertaining exclusively to domestic terrorism. To fulfill its statutory terrorism information responsibilities, NCTC must access and review datasets already lawfully collected by other government entities for national security purposes even if those datasets also include non-terrorism information. For example, certain information regarding visa applications, refugees, and international travelers may have potential connections to terrorism that are not readily apparent to the federal agency that maintains the data. It is often only through NCTC's access to terrorism information held by other government agencies that NCTC is able to correlate disparate information and uncover threats to the nation. In March 2012, Attorney General Eric Holder, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper, and NCTC Director Matthew G. Olsen signed updated guidelines designed to allow NCTC to more effectively analyze certain data already in the government's possession to better address terrorism-related threats, while at the same time increasing the protections for privacy and civil liberties. These guidelines were updated in response to issues identified by the White House, Congress, and Intelligence Community after the 2009 Fort Hood shooting and the Christmas Day 2009 bombing attempt. One such issue was the government's limited ability to query multiple federal datasets residing at different government agencies, and to correlate that information to proactively identify information that might relate to a potential attack. Similarly, the reviews noted that information that is not believed to be relevant could later be recognized as relevant based on subsequent events or information obtained at different points in time."
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
2012?
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Counterterrorism 2013 Calendar
"The US National Counterterrorism Center is pleased to present the 2013 edition of the Counterterrorism (CT) Calendar. This edition, like others since the Calendar was first published in daily planner format in 2003, contains many features across the full range of issues pertaining to international terrorism: terrorist groups, wanted terrorists, and technical pages on various threat-related topics. The Calendar also marks dates that terrorists may believe are important if planning attacks to commemorate particular events. Individuals portrayed in this calendar are listed on the US Government's Rewards for Justice site or on FBI sites devoted to terrorism. These individuals have all been either indicted or are being sought for their involvement in international terrorism. The CT Calendar is designed as a ready reference guide for law enforcement, intelligence, military and security personnel, contingency planners, or citizens concerned about terrorist threats. The CT Calendar is oriented primarily to readers in the United States, but we hope it will be useful for citizens of other countries as well."
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
2013
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Counterterrorism Guide [website]
The Couterterrorism Guide (website) includes an interactive timeline, counterterrorism calendar, interactive map, terrorist profiles, information on terrorist groups, and methods and tactics. From the website: "The US National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) is pleased to present the International Terrorism Guide Website, a ready reference guide for law enforcement, intelligence, military and security personnel, contingency planners, or citizens concerned about international terrorist threats. This site contains many features across the full range of issues pertaining to international terrorism: technical pages on various threat-related topics, terrorist groups, and wanted terrorists.. Each individual whose picture is portrayed is listed on the US Government's Rewards for Justice website devoted to international terrorism. The Rewards for Justice program is mandated by federal law (1984 Act to Combat International Terrorism) and is administered by the U.S. Department of State. The Secretary of State authorizes rewards for information that leads to a terrorist that commits an act of terrorism directed against Americans, leads to the locations of a key terrorist leader, or that disrupts terrorism financing. The site also contains a timeline of events relating to international terrorism, including dates that international terrorists may believe are important if planning attacks to commemorate particular events."
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
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NCTC Guidelines: Understanding Acquisition, Retention and Dissemination of USP Information and Other Issues in EO 12333 [presentation]
"At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to: [1] Describe NCTC's [National Counterterrorism Center] mission [2] Identify NCTC's authorities and its legal and policy framework [3] Define NCTC collection authority under E.O. [Executive Order] 12333 [4] Define 'terrorism information' under IRTPA [Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act ] [5] Describe NCTC's ability to access, acquire, retain, and disseminate information under HR 7-1 and the new AG-DNI Guidelines [6] Identify the different tracks for access to information under the AG-DNI Guidelines".
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
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PA101: Privacy Act - Safeguarding Personal Information
"To conduct its business, the Federal Gcr1emment including the Intelligence Community (IC), collects, maintains and discloses information about American citizens and permanent resident aliens. In 1974, the Privacy Act was established to protect these individuals' rights with regard to how the government uses the information it collects about them. Upon completing this course, you will be able to: [1] Describe how the Privacy Act of 1974 protects individuals' rights regarding information collected, maintained and disclosed about them by the Federal Government [2] Define Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and how it is protected".
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
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NCTC Civil Liberties and Privacy Office: Protection of Privacy and Civil Liberties [presentation]
This presentation from the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) covers the following topics: "Why a CLPO [Civil Liberties and Privacy Office]?"; "US Person Protection"; "Civil liberties and privacy considerations in data access"; "First Amendment Issues"; "Compliance"; and "CLPO Take-Away".
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
