Editing Patriot Act (section)

=== Title IX: Improved intelligence ===
{{Main|Title IX of the Patriot Act}}
Title IX amends the ''[[National Security Act of 1947]]'' to require the [[Director of Central Intelligence]] (DCI) to establish requirements and priorities for foreign intelligence collected under FISA and to provide assistance to the U.S. Attorney General to ensure that information derived from electronic surveillance or physical searches is disseminated for efficient and effective foreign intelligence purposes.<ref>USA PATRIOT Act, Title IX, Sec. 901.</ref> With the exception of information that might jeopardize an ongoing law enforcement investigation, it was made a requirement that the Attorney General, or the head of any other department or agency of the Federal Government with law enforcement responsibilities, disclose to the director any foreign intelligence acquired by the U.S. Department of Justice. The U.S. Attorney General and Director of Central Intelligence both were directed to develop procedures for the Attorney General to follow in order to inform the director, in a timely manner, of any intention of investigating criminal activity of a foreign intelligence source or potential foreign intelligence source based on the intelligence tip-off of a member of the intelligence community. The Attorney General was also directed to develop procedures on how to best administer these matters.<ref>USA PATRIOT Act, Title IX, Sec. 905.</ref> International terrorist activities were made to fall within the scope of foreign intelligence under the ''National Security Act''.<ref name="Section903" />

A number of reports were commissioned relating to various intelligence-related government centers. One was commissioned into the best way of setting up the [[National Virtual Translation Center]], with the goal of developing automated translation facilities to assist with the timely and accurate translation of foreign intelligence information for elements of the U.S. intelligence community.<ref>USA PATRIOT Act, Title IX, Sec. 906.</ref> The USA PATRIOT Act required this to be provided on February 1, 2002; however, the report, entitled "Director of Central Intelligence Report on the National Virtual Translation Center: A Concept Plan to Enhance the Intelligence Community's Foreign Language Capabilities, April 29, 2002" was received more than two months late, which the [[United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence|Senate Select Committee on Intelligence]] reported was "a delay which, in addition to contravening the explicit words of the statute, deprived the Committee of timely and valuable input into its efforts to craft this legislation."<ref>[http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/?&dbname=cp107&sid=cp107vw7gj&refer=&r_n=sr149.107&item=&sel=TOC_56363& Senate Report 107-149] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130825010616/http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/?&dbname=cp107&sid=cp107vw7gj&refer=&r_n=sr149.107&item=&sel=TOC_56363& |date=August 25, 2013 }} – "To authorize appropriations for Fiscal Year 2003 for Intelligence and Intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement Disability System, and for other purposes.", see the section "National Virtual Translation Center"</ref> Another report was commissioned on the feasibility and desirability of reconfiguring the Foreign Terrorist Asset Tracking Center and the [[Office of Foreign Assets Control]] of the [[United States Department of the Treasury|Department of the Treasury]].<ref>USA PATRIOT Act, Title IX, Sec. 907.</ref> It was due by February 1, 2002; however, it was never written. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence later complained that "[t]he Director of Central Intelligence and the Secretary of the Treasury failed to provide a report, this time in direct contravention of a section of the USA PATRIOT Act" and they further directed "that the statutorily-directed report be completed immediately, and that it should include a section describing the circumstances which led to the Director's failure to comply with lawful reporting requirements."<ref>[http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/?&dbname=cp107&sid=cp107vw7gj&refer=&r_n=sr149.107&item=&sel=TOC_56363& Senate Report 107-149] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130825010616/http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/?&dbname=cp107&sid=cp107vw7gj&refer=&r_n=sr149.107&item=&sel=TOC_56363& |date=August 25, 2013 }} – "To authorize appropriations for Fiscal Year 2003 for Intelligence and Intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement Disability System, and for other purposes.", see the section "Foreign Terrorist Asset Tracking Center"</ref>

Other measures allowed certain reports on intelligence and intelligence-related matters to be deferred until at least February 1, 2002, if the official involved certified that preparation and submission on February 1, 2002, would impede the work of officers or employees engaged in counterterrorism activities. Any such deferral required congressional notification before it was authorized.<ref>USA PATRIOT Act, Title IX, Sec. 904.</ref> The Attorney General was charged with training officials in identifying and utilizing foreign intelligence information properly in the course of their duties. The government officials include those in the Federal Government who do not normally encounter or disseminate foreign intelligence in the performance of their duties, and State and local government officials who encounter, or potentially may encounter in the course of a terrorist event, foreign intelligence in the performance of their duties.<ref>USA PATRIOT Act, Title IX, Sec. 908.</ref> A sense of Congress was expressed that officers and employees of the intelligence community should be encouraged to make every effort to establish and maintain intelligence relationships with any person, entity, or group while they conduct lawful intelligence activities.<ref name="Section903">USA PATRIOT Act, Title IX, Sec. 903.</ref>