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Report by the Dept. of Justice (DOJ) Office of Inspector Gen. (OIG).Shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, three FBI field offices began using an application called the Terrorist Activity Reporting System to track and monitor terrorist threats and suspicious incidents. Soon after, this application was further developed and integrated throughout the FBI. It has become the cornerstone of the FBI’s terrorist threat assessment process for supporting the identification, collection, management, evaluation, analysis, and dissemination of all terrorist threats and suspicious incidents up to the secret classification level. In 2002, the FBI upgraded the Terrorist Activity Reporting System to allow for multi-field office use and deployed a pilot terrorist threat tracking application, called Guardian, to select field offices. After successfully testing the pilot program in 2004, the FBI deployed an updated version of Guardian, Guardian 1.4, for use throughout the FBI on its internal computer network. In Oct. 2006, the FBI deployed another upgraded version, Guardian 2.0, which remains in use today. Counterterrorism threats and suspicious incidents are captured, stored, and assigned in Guardian, which can be searched by all FBI employees and other govt. agency partners who the FBI has determined need counterterrorism-related intelligence information. The FBI has developed an additional threat tracking system called E-Guardian, which is designed to facilitate the sharing of threat and suspicious incident information between the FBI and its state, local, and tribal law enforcement partners that do not have access to Guardian. Tables.
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