Strategic Intelligence Assessment and Data on Domestic Terrorism

"I. Overview of Reporting Requirement

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (the Act) requires the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), to jointly produce a report containing a strategic intelligence assessment and data on domestic terrorism (DT).1 The Act requires the report to contain a strategic intelligence assessment, a discussion of activities, certain data on DT matters, and recommendations.

II. Executive Summary

Preventing terrorist attacks remains a top priority for both the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The threat posed by international and domestic threat actors has evolved significantly since 9/11. The greatest terrorism threat to the Homeland we face today is posed by lone offenders, 2 often radicalized online, who look to attack soft targets with easily accessible weapons. Many of these violent extremists are motivated and inspired by a mix of socio-political goals and personal grievances against their targets. With this report, we are providing our strategic intelligence assessments on DT, a detailed discussion of our procedures and methods to address DT threats, as well as data on DT incidents and our investigations.

III. Introduction

The FBI and DHS are both charged with preventing terrorist attacks in the United States, including those conducted by Domestic Violent Extremists (DVEs).3 This goal drives the FBI’s mission to proactively lead law enforcement and domestic intelligence efforts to defeat terrorist attacks against US citizens and US interests through an integrated strategy to detect, penetrate, disrupt, and dismantle criminal DT plots, and the FBI and DHS missions to provide strategic analysis of the DVE landscape..."
Domestic Terrorism 

Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community

"This annual report of worldwide threats to the national security of the United States responds to Section 617 of the FY21 Intelligence Authorization Act (P.L. 116-260). This report reflects the collective insights of the Intelligence Community (IC), which is committed every day to providing the nuanced, independent, and unvarnished intelligence that policymakers, warfighters, and domestic law enforcement personnel need to protect American lives and America’s interests anywhere in the world.

This assessment focuses on the most direct, serious threats to the United States during the next year. The order of the topics presented in this assessment does not necessarily indicate their relative importance or the magnitude of the threats in the view of the IC. All require a robust intelligence response, including those where a near-term focus may help head off greater threats in the future, such as climate change and environmental degradation.

As required by the law, this report will be provided to the congressional intelligence committees as well as the committees on the Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Information available as of 9 April 2021 was used in the preparation of this assessment..."
Annual Threat Assessment 

Background to “Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections”: The Analytic Process and Cyber Incident Attribution

"Background to “Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections”: The Analytic Process and Cyber Incident Attribution

 “Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections” is a declassified version of a highly classified assessment that has been provided to the President and to recipients approved by the President.

 The Intelligence Community rarely can publicly reveal the full extent of its knowledge or the precise bases for its assessments, as the release of such information would reveal sensitive sources or methods and imperil the ability to collect critical foreign intelligence in the future.

 Thus, while the conclusions in the report are all reflected in the classified assessment, the declassified report does not and cannot include the full supporting information, including specific intelligence and sources and methods..."
Russian hacking activities

The U.S. Intelligence Community: Selected Cross-Cutting Issues

"This report focuses on cross-cutting management issues that affect the Intelligence Community’s (IC’s) ability to counter “pervasive and emerging threats” to the United States and balance resources both appropriately and wisely. As the IC’s senior manager, these issues ultimately fall within the Director of National Intelligence’s (DNI’s) area of responsibility. The DNI is charged with integrating the community of intelligence agencies so that they operate effectively as one team.

There are no easy solutions to the challenges examined in this report. The IC’s efforts to demonstrate progress are hampered by difficulties such as the IC’s diffuse structure—a confederation of separately managed component parts; the unique demands of operating in secret; the interrelationships between many issues; and diminishing resources..."
Intelligence community

Office of the Director of National Intelligence. 2010 Data Mining Report. January 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010
"The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) provides this report pursuant to
Section 804 of the Implementing the Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007,
entitled The Federal Agency Data Mining Reporting Act of 2007 (Data Mining Reporting Act).
A. Scope.
This report covers the activities of all ODNI components from January 1, 2010 through
December 31, 2010. Constituent elements of the Intelligence Community (IC) will report their activities to Congress through their own departments or agencies..."

Intelligence Reform After Five Years: The Role of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI)
"The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (P.L. 108-458) was the most
significant legislation affecting the U.S. intelligence community since the National Security Act
of 1947. Enacted in the wake of the 9/11 Commission’s final report, the 2004 act attempted to
ensure closer coordination among intelligence agencies especially in regard to counterterrorism
efforts. Most notably, the Intelligence Reform Act established the position of Director of National
Intelligence (DNI) with more extensive authorities to coordinate the nation’s intelligence effort
than those formerly possessed by Directors of Central Intelligence. The DNI speaks for U.S.
intelligence, he briefs the President, has authority to develop the budget for the national
intelligence effort and manage appropriations made by Congress, and, to some extent, can
transfer personnel and funds from one agency to another. The Office of the DNI (ODNI), a staff
of some 1,600 officials along with additional contract personnel, works to carry out the DNI’s
responsibilities..."

Vision 2015: A Globally Networked and Integrated Intelligence Enterprise
The Director of National Intelligence vision statement for the 21st century.