For Immediate Release
August 12, 2005
Washington D.C.
FBI National Press Office
(202) 324-3691

FBI ANNOUNCES LEADERSHIP OF NATIONAL SECURITY BRANCH

Washington D.C. – Director Robert S. Mueller III is pleased to announce the appointment of Gary M. Bald as head of the FBI’s new National Security Branch (NSB). Mr. Bald currently serves as Executive Assistant Director (EAD) for Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence. Philip Mudd, currently Deputy Director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center (CTC), will serve as deputy head of the NSB. Mr. Bald and Mr. Mudd have the full confidence of Attorney General Gonzales and Director of National Intelligence Negroponte, both of whom have concurred with this decision.

Consistent with the recommendation of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD Commission) and the President’s memorandum of June 28, 2005, the FBI is consolidating the positions of EAD for Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence and EAD for Intelligence into a single EAD for National Security.

In their new positions, Mr. Bald and Mr. Mudd will oversee the FBI’s counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and intelligence programs, which are being consolidated under the new NSB. They will be responsible for the FBI’s national security mission, including the continued development of a specialized national security workforce. Mr. Bald will be the lead FBI official responsible for integrating the FBI’s national security mission with the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the Intelligence Community.

Director Mueller said, “The National Security Branch is the next step in the evolution of the FBI’s intelligence capabilities. As head of the NSB, Mr. Bald will work to further the integration of our intelligence collection and analysis capabilities, and will direct our national security resources in accordance with the leadership of the DNI.

“We have put together a management team for the NSB that is uniquely qualified to implement the Bureau’s intelligence strategy in a manner that meets the requirements of both the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence, and maintains the FBI’s commitment to protecting civil liberties. Gary Bald brings to this new position a wide range of operational and leadership experience, which he has demonstrated over nearly 28 years of service with the FBI.

“Philip Mudd brings extensive expertise in both intelligence operations and intelligence analysis, as well as in-depth knowledge of international terrorism and the Middle East. I look forward to working with both of them on full implementation of the NSB.”

SNIP > [Bald’s info]

Philip Mudd

Mr. Mudd joined the CIA in 1985 as a leadership analyst responsible for South Asian issues and continued as a political analyst specializing on India and Sri Lanka until the early 1990s. He began work at the CTC during 1992-95, focusing largely on terrorism in the Middle East with an emphasis on Iranian state-sponsored terrorism. He later joined the National Intelligence Council for a tour as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Near East and South Asia during 1995-98; his portfolio on the Council included interagency analysis on Iranian and South Asian issues. He worked as the Executive Assistant to the Associate Deputy Director for Intelligence in 1998-99 and then spent two years as chief of CIA’s analytic group directed against Iraq.

Mr. Mudd returned to the CIA in January 2002 from the Near East Section of the White House National Security Council (NSC), where he served as the Director responsible for Gulf and other Middle Eastern issues. His NSC tour concluded with his joining Ambassador James Dobbins in the U.S. effort to reconstitute a new government in Afghanistan.

Mr. Mudd currently serves as second-in-charge of the CTC, which has responsibility for all-source analysis and global clandestine operations on subjects ranging from al-Qa’ida’s leadership to Hizballah to terrorists’ use of chemical and biological weapons.

Mr. Mudd is the recipient of more than a dozen Exceptional Performance Awards from CIA. He also was one of the two first-ever recipients of the Langer Award (November 2002), which recognizes superior achievements in CIA’s analytic directorate, and the Director’s Award (July 2004), the highest achievement award personally given by the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

If someone else gets the video, please post the link. I’d like to watch it.

…after 20 years with the CIA, Phill Mudd joined the FBI in 2005 as Deputy head of the branch’s National Security Brnach, tasked with transforming the FABI into a domestic intelligence agency more like Britain’s MI-5…

Here he is implying that Ned Lamont’s people “hacked” J. Low Lierberman’s Webs site, which we all knew was a flat-out lie.
http://www.myleftnutmeg.com/diary/5022/

What a disgusting human.

We. Need. To. Know.

rhis is NOT nazi germane and we are we are NOT “the homeland”, WE ARE AMERICA ga damn it so STOP using nazi terms to descrive THIS country!