United States Department of Justice National Security Division

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The U.S. Department of Justice's National Security Division (NSD) is a new division within the Department designed to consolidate the Department's national security efforts within one unit, fulfilling a recommendation of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. [1] The reorganization will bring together attorneys from the Criminal Division's Counterterrorism and Counterespionage Sections and the attorneys from the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review (OIPR), with their specialized expertise in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and other intelligence matters. The legislation creating the new division was passed by Congress along with the Patriot Act reauthorization on March 2, 2006.

On March 13, 2006, President Bush announced the nomination of Kenneth L. Wainstein to be the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the National Security Division.[2]