The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) 9/11 Review Commission was formed by Congress in January 2014 to conduct a comprehensive review of the recommendations related to the FBI that were proposed by the original 9/11 Commission. The commission, which was publicly announced by Republican Congressman Frank Wolf of (VA-10), consisted of three congressionally appointed members supported by an executive director and staff.
On March 26, 2014, the commission's members testified regarding their initial progress before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies.
Following 14 months of research, interviews, briefings and field visits the commission issued an unclassified public version of its final report titled The FBI: Protecting the Homeland in the 21st Century on March 25, 2015. Its overarching conclusion was that while the FBI had made significant advances since 9/11, there remained "a significant gap between the articulated principles of its intelligence programs and their effectiveness in practice". The report found that the agency needed to urgently improve its ability to collect and efficiently analyze information, contending that the bureau was lagging "behind marked advances in law enforcement capabilities", noted a need to hire more linguists and translators, and stated that budget cuts had "severely hindered the F.B.I.'s intelligence and national security programs."