appropriately as pertaining to potential
terrorist activity.
(7) Under procedures prescribed jointly by the
Director of Central Intelligence and the Attorney
General, each appropriate Federal agency, as determined
by the President, shall review and assess the
information shared under paragraph (6) and integrate
such information with existing intelligence.
(c) Sharing of Classified Information and Sensitive but
Unclassified Information With State and Local Personnel.--
(1) The President shall prescribe procedures under
which Federal agencies may, to the extent the President
considers necessary, share with appropriate State and
local personnel homeland security information that
remains classified or otherwise protected after the
determinations prescribed under the procedures set
forth in subsection (a).
(2) It is the sense of Congress that such
procedures may include 1 or more of the following
means:
(A) Carrying out security clearance
investigations with respect to appropriate
State and local personnel.
(B) With respect to information that is
sensitive but unclassified, entering into
nondisclosure agreements with appropriate State
and local personnel.
(C) Increased use of information-sharing
partnerships that include appropriate State and
local personnel, such as the Joint Terrorism
Task Forces of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the Anti-Terrorism Task Forces
of the Department of Justice, and regional
Terrorism Early Warning Groups.
(3)(A) The Secretary shall establish a program to
provide appropriate training to officials described in
subparagraph (B) in order to assist such officials in--
(i) identifying sources of potential
terrorist threats through such methods as the
Secretary determines appropriate;
(ii) reporting information relating to such
potential terrorist threats to the appropriate
Federal agencies in the appropriate form and
manner;
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