Sec. 346. REPORT ON ATTEMPT TO DETONATE EXPLOSIVE DEVICE ON NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 253

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## SEC. 346 REPORT ON ATTEMPT TO DETONATE EXPLOSIVE DEVICE ON NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 253 Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence shall submit to Congress a report on the attempt to detonate an explosive device aboard Northwest Airlines flight number 253 on December 25, 2009. Such report shall describe the failures, if any, to share or analyze intelligence or other information and the measures that the intelligence community has taken or will take to prevent such failures, including— ####

(1)a description of the roles and responsibilities of the counterterrorism analytic components of the intelligence community in synchronizing, correlating, and analyzing all sources of intelligence related to terrorism; ####

(2)an assessment of the technological capabilities of the United States Government to assess terrorist threats, including— #####

(A)a list of all databases used by counterterrorism analysts; #####

(B)a description of the steps taken by the intelligence community to integrate all relevant terrorist databases and allow for cross-database searches; #####

(C)a description of the steps taken by the intelligence community to correlate biographic information with terrorism-related intelligence; and #####

(D)a description of the improvements to information technology needed to enable the United States Government to better share information; ####

(3)any recommendations that the Director considers appropriate for legislation to improve the sharing of intelligence or information relating to terrorists; ####

(4)a description of the steps taken by the intelligence community to train analysts on watchlisting processes and procedures; ####

(5)a description of the manner in which watchlisting information is entered, reviewed, searched, analyzed, and acted upon by the relevant elements of the United States Government; ####

(6)a description of the steps the intelligence community is taking to enhance the rigor and raise the standard of tradecraft of intelligence analysis related to uncovering and preventing terrorist plots; ####

(7)a description of the processes and procedures by which the intelligence community prioritizes terrorism threat leads and the standards used by elements of the intelligence community to determine if follow-up action is appropriate; ####

(8)a description of the steps taken to enhance record information on possible terrorists in the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment; ####

(9)an assessment of how to meet the challenge associated with exploiting the ever-increasing volume of information available to the intelligence community; and ####

(10)a description of the steps the intelligence community has taken or will take to respond to any findings and recommendations of the congressional intelligence committees, with respect to any such failures, that have been transmitted to the Director of National Intelligence.