The National Security Service is to be an office within the Federal Bureau of Investigation that will consolidate the bureau's counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and intelligence duties. Headed by an Executive Assistant Director, it will absorb the FBI's Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence and Directorate of Intelligence and will be under the authority of Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte. Official FBI Seal The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a Federal police force and intelligence agency which is the principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ... Counter-terrorism refers to the practices, tactics, and strategies that governments, militaries, and other groups adopt in order to fight terrorism. ... Counterintelligence or counter-espionage is the act of seeking and indentifying espionage activities. ... Intelligence has several different meanings: Intelligence (trait) is the ability to solve problems Animal intelligence Artificial intelligence Intelligence (journal), a scientific journal dealing with intelligence and psychometrics Intelligence (information gathering), often including espionage Business intelligence Criminal intelligence Military intelligence This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise... The FBI Counterterrorism Division is the division of the FBI that deals with terrorist threats inside the United States. ... The post of National Intelligence Director was created in the wake of the September 11th attacks to be in charge of 12-plus intelligence agencies. ... John D. Negroponte John Dimitri Negroponte (born July 21, 1939) (IPA ) is a career diplomat currently serving as Director of National Intelligence for the United States. ...

Some advocates of this new program say that this re-organization will help the fight against terrorism by making it less beaureaucratic.

External link

• BBC.com
• CNN.com - Bush creates National Security Service - Jun 29, 2005