Here’s something that Dennis Blair probably doesn’t want to read now that he’s vacated his job as director of national intelligence. The Atlantic’s Max Fisher reports that a (typically powerless) White House intelligence advisory group issued a report around March outlining a plan to bolster the authority and More…
Good David Ignatius column on What James Clapper’s Nomination Means:
The DNI flap has been fascinating in what it shows about Obama’s approach to intelligence. He wants facts, not commentary; he mistrusts aides such as Blair who let their personal opinions show, and he correspondingly values low-key colleagues such
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has been lukewarm at best about Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence James Clapper becoming the next director of national intelligence. And in a new statement, she says that she wants to strengthen the DNI’s authorities More…
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In a statement she put out yesterday afternoon, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, sure sounded like she didn’t want defense intelligence chief James Clapper to take over for the departing Dennis Blair as the next director of national intelligence. (“It will More…
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, just issued a statement practically begging the Obama administration to work with her to restructure the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the five-year-old bureaucratic anomaly seated atop the country’s 16 intelligence agencies. “I have long More…
Late in 2008, Mike McConnell, then the director of national intelligence, issued a directive instructing CIA officials at overseas outposts directly responsible to him. It was the first time in the brief history of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence that the director had waded a toe into More…
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