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United States Director of National Intelligence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) is a United States cabinet-level official coordinating all 15 components of the Intelligence Community, and is the principal intelligence adviser to the president and the statutory intelligence advisor to the National Security Council. On April 21, 2005, John Negroponte was confirmed by a vote of 98 to 2 in favor of his appointment as Director of National Intelligence, and was sworn in by President Bush on that day. Previously, the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) oversaw the Intelligence Community and served as the principal intelligence adviser to the president, in addition to serving as head of the Central Intelligence Agency. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Director_of_National_Intelligence   (380 words)

USATODAY.com - Bush supports national intelligence director He endorsed the creation of a national intelligence director and a national counterterrorism center, two central recommendations of the 9/11 Commission that studied intelligence failures before the Sept. 11 attacks. Democratic nominee John Kerry, who has endorsed all 41 of the commission's recommendations, noted that Bush initially opposed creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the 9/11 Commission and the national intelligence director. Ask Congress to create the position of national intelligence director, who would be appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate to coordinate intelligence from all 15 U.S. intelligence agencies. www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2004-08-02-bush-report_x.htm   (589 words)

Bush unveils intelligence plan - U.S. Security - MSNBC.com However, Collins and Lieberman spurned the 9/11 commission’s recommendation that all of the nation’s intelligence agencies be under control of the national intelligence director, leaving the Defense Department in control of some of the military intelligence agencies. The intelligence director would control the budgets of the CIA; the National Security Agency; the FBI’s Office of Intelligence; the Homeland Security Department’s intelligence directorate; the National Reconnaissance Office, which operates spy satellites; the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which analyzes satellite pictures; and any other agency that has a “national” scope. The Sept. 11 commission recommended creation of a national intelligence director to control almost all of the nation’s intelligence agencies because it said the 15 U.S. intelligence agencies did not work together properly to stop the attacks on New York City and Washington. www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6011937   (716 words)

Bush Backs Creation of Intelligence Czar (washingtonpost.com) Bush said that under the proposed reorganization, the national intelligence director "will assume the broader responsibility of leading the intelligence community across our government," while the CIA would be managed by a separate director. McLaughlin had previously expressed opposition to the creation of a new position of national intelligence director, a post that would supplant the CIA director's role as the nominal overseer of the 15 agencies comprising the U.S. intelligence community. He said the new director "will be appointed by the president, with the advice and consent of the Senate, and will serve at the pleasure of the president," acting as his principal intelligence adviser while overseeing and coordinating foreign and domestic intelligence activities. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A33866-2004Aug2.html   (1030 words)

DefenseLINK News: Bush Praises New National Intelligence Director, Deputy The position of national intelligence director "is one of the newest in the government" as well as "one of the most demanding," Bush remarked at the New Executive Office Building. Congress created the director of national intelligence position last year in addressing recommendations made by the commission that investigated the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. Hayden, the former director of the National Security Agency "understands the intelligence community from the ground up," Bush said. www.defenselink.mil /news/May2005/20050518_1210.html   (376 words)

Senator Feinstein Introduces Legislation to Create Director of National Intelligence This concept was endorsed by the House-Senate Intelligence Committee investigating the September 11 attacks, which included a recommendation in support of the creation of the Director of National Intelligence with robust budget authority in the report it issued last month. Clarifies and augments the Director of National Intelligence's authorities to direct the creation of the intelligence community budget: this will ensure meaningful and effective leadership of the Intelligence Community in the area of resource allocation. Clarifies and augments the Director of National Intelligence's authorities to reprogram intelligence community funds and personnel. boxer.senate.gov /~feinstein/03Releases/r-dnilegislation03p.htm   (472 words)

Occupational hazards thebulletin.org The National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran, last cast in 2001, is under revision at the time of this writing, and CIA Director Porter Goss's recent Senate testimony suggests a North Korea NIE is in the works as well. U.S. intelligence on Iran and North Korea is woefully inadequate, owing to the familiar dearth of human on-the-ground sources. The nation is just coming off the buildup to the Iraq War, in which intelligence estimates were manipulated for political ends. www.thebulletin.org /article.php?art_ofn=mj05prados   (1666 words)

From Director of Central Intelligence to Director of National Intelligence With the compromise reached on December 6, the road was cleared of obstacles to establish a Director of National Intelligence. This fact sheet specifies the proposed structure of the office of the National Intelligence Director, the director's general powers, the director's budget authority, the personnel authorities of the director, and the director's responsibilities for managing the intelligence community. That same day, presidential press secretary Scott McClellan hosted a press briefing, attended by national security adviser Condoleeza Rice and chief of staff Andrew Card, to elaborate on the specifics of the president's plan for a national intelligence director. www2.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB144   (3792 words)

John Negroponte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Dimitri Negroponte (born July 21, 1939) (IPA [ˌnɛgroʊˈpɑnti]) is a career diplomat currently serving as Director of National Intelligence for the United States. In April 2005, as the Senate confirmation hearings for the National Intelligence post took place, hundreds of documents were released by the State Department in response to a FOIA request by the Washington Post. Records also show that a special intelligence unit (commonly referred to as a "death squad") of the Honduran armed forces, Battalion 3-16, trained by the CIA and the Argentine military, kidnapped, tortured and killed hundreds of people, including U.S. missionaries. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Negroponte   (1833 words)

National Intelligence Director Proves to Be Difficult Post to Fill (washingtonpost.com) Under the law, the director of national intelligence is responsible for ensuring that all elements of the intelligence community obey the law, particularly the CIA, FBI and Pentagon elements carrying out clandestine or covert activities. The vice chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), acknowledged that the legislation left uncertainties about the role of the director of national intelligence (DNI) but said that "it was better to be a little vague" in writing such a law. Two former intelligence officials said that Silberman, a former ambassador to Yugoslavia and former deputy attorney general, and William Studeman, another member of the commission and former deputy CIA director, may be under consideration. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A49845-2005Jan30.html   (1067 words)

Statement of Senator Feinstein on Legislation to Create a Director of National Intelligence The new Director of National Intelligence would not only have the statutory and structural position of leadership needed (and be freed from his responsibilities to run the CIA on a day-to-day basis), he or she would have the authorities and tools necessary to accomplish these responsibilities. Washington, DC - The U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence today convened a hearing on the proposal of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to create the position of Director of National Intelligence. Statement of Senator Feinstein on Legislation to Create a Director of National Intelligence feinstein.senate.gov /04Releases/r-dni-hearng.htm   (1976 words)

CNN.com - Key provisions: U.S. intelligence reform bill - Dec 8, 2004 Creates the new position of director of national intelligence, separate from the CIA director, to direct and manage the activities of agencies across the intelligence community and serve as the principal adviser to the president for intelligence concerns. Previously, the center was part of the CIA, with its director appointed by the CIA director. Now, the president will appoint the center's director, with confirmation by the Senate.The center is designed to analyze and interpret intelligence information related to terrorism and to conduct strategic planning for counterterrorism activities. www.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/08/intelligence.key.facts   (735 words)

United States Director of National Intelligence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) is a United States cabinet-level official coordinating all 16 components of the Intelligence Community, and is the principal intelligence adviser to the president and the statutory intelligence advisor to the National Security Council. On April 21, 2005, John Negroponte was confirmed by a vote of 98 to 2 in favor of his appointment as Director of National Intelligence, and was sworn in by President Bush on that day. Previously, the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) oversaw the Intelligence Community and served as the principal intelligence adviser to the president, in addition to serving as head of the Central Intelligence Agency. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Director_of_National_Intelligence   (372 words)

Patrick Briley -- National Intelligence Director Candidate Covered Up OKC Bombing Two former intelligence officials said late last week that Vice Admiral William O. Studeman is under consideration for the national intelligence director by President Bush. Studeman was formerly deputy director of the CIA and head of the National Security Agency and also served as interim acting director of the CIA at the time of the OKC bombing. If Studeman is nominated as national intelligence director, Admiral Studeman should be questioned and compelled to tell all to Congress during his confirmation hearings. www.newswithviews.com /Briley/Patrick3.htm   (1829 words)

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence : Home Page Intelligence Chairs Call for Declassification of Documents Seized in Global War on Terrorism more... The committee is unable to take on interns due to the sensitive nature of the committee`s work (i.e., classified material, national security, more... 1775- The continental Congress created the Committee of Secret Correspondence to gather foreign intelligence from people in England, Ireland, and else where on the European continent to help in the prosecution of the war. intelligence.house.gov   (246 words)

Democracy Now! Promoting the 'Ambassador of Torture': Bush Nominates Negroponte for Intel Czar John understands America's global intelligence needs because he spent the better part of his life in our foreign service and is now serving with distinction in the sensitive post of our nation's first ambassador to a free Iraq. Peter Kornbluh, author of “The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability.” He is a senior analyst at the National Security Archive, a public-interest documentation center in Washington. I would say that his strongest qualifications for this post were the unofficial duties that he had as Ambassador in Honduras. www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=05/02/18/157206   (3705 words)

www.GovExec.com - Report highlights challenges facing new national intelligence director (4/15/05) For example, the DNI is charged with putting together the National Intelligence Program, but his authorities are limited when it comes to DoD's Joint Military Intelligence Program and Tactical Intelligence and Related Activities Program. The new position was created as part of the 2004 Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act. For intelligence agencies outside the Pentagon, the DNI serves as the exclusive decision-making authority for major acquisitions. www.govexec.com /dailyfed/0405/041505c1.htm   (432 words)

Office of the Director of National Intelligence - Security and Privacy Notice We request only that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence be cited as the source of the information and that any photo credits or bylines be similarly credited to the photographer or author or Office of the Director of National Intelligence, as appropriate. Unless a copyright is indicated, information on the Office of the Director of National Intelligence website is in the public domain and may be reproduced, published, or otherwise used without the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's permission. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence website (DNI.GOV or ODNI.GOV) is provided as a public service by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on behalf of the Director of National Intelligence. www.dni.gov /Privacy_Security_Notice.html   (884 words)

UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY - WHO WE ARE Although the Intelligence Reform Act provides extensive budgetary and management authorities over these agencies to the Director of National Intelligence, it does not revoke the responsibilities of the Secretary of Defense for these agencies. The intelligence offices/agencies, however, participate in Intelligence Community activities and serve to support the other efforts of their departments. The key intelligence functions of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) relate to counterterrorism and counterintelligence. www.intelligence.gov /1-members.shtml   (594 words)

Rumsfeld Meets with New US National Intelligence Director Cambone as the Defense Department's liaison to the new director of national intelligence, a move some have criticized as an effort to limit Mr. At the same hearing, the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby, was asked how he would handle conflicting orders from the defense secretary and the director of national intelligence. At the Senate Armed Service Committee on Thursday, at the same time that Secretary Rumsfeld was hosting Ambassador Negroponte, the undersecretary of defense for intelligence, Stephen Cambone, was asked what would happen if there were a dispute between the secretary and the director of national intelligence over the key issue of funding for intelligence activities. www.voanews.com /english/2005-04-28-voa59.cfm   (730 words)

You Call That a Reform Bill? - The new national intelligence director will be a toothless figurehead. By Fred Kaplan In short, this "reform" bill places about 80 percent of the entity that's supposedly being reformed outside the control of the official—the new national intelligence director—who is supposedly the reform's centerpiece. The explicit duties of the new national intelligence director, as laid out in the bill, have not yet been reported. The president has also installed his own man, Porter Goss, as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. www.slate.com /id/2110767   (1008 words)

FT.com / World / US - Negroponte named new US spy chief John Negroponte was yesterday named as the first US director of national intelligence, a choice that signalled President George W. Bush's determination to shake up the intelligence community's operations. John Negroponte, nominated by President George W. Bush as the first US director of national intelligence, said the post “will no doubt be the most challenging assignment I have undertaken in more than 40 years of government service”. While Mr Negroponte's appointment is likely to be welcomed by many career Central Intelligence Agency officials, it is a big setback for Porter Goss the Republican congressman appointed in September to head the CIA who was considered for the post. news.ft.com /cms/s/c6bd840a-80f5-11d9-adb4-00000e2511c8.html   (229 words)

Negroponte picked for intelligence czar - U.S. Security - MSNBC.com Hayden is the longest serving director of the secretive codebreaking agency and has pushed for changes, such as asking longtime agency veterans to retire and increasing reliance on technology contractors. They worried that the legislation establishing the intelligence job was too vague in outlining its authority, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity. Negroponte’s confirmation to the United Nations post was delayed a half-year mostly because of criticism of his record as the U.S. ambassador to Honduras from 1981 to 1985. www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6986647   (1100 words)

USATODAY.com - CIA director: 'Devil in the details' on national intelligence director WASHINGTON (AP) — CIA Director John McLaughlin told agency employees that the "devil is in the details" on the formation of a new national intelligence director and those details will take time to finalize, according to an internal CIA message. His blueprint would give the new director authority to "coordinate" the budgets of the intelligence agencies, as the CIA director now does, but not the final say on how much they receive or how they spend it. The Sept. 11 commission also said the director should have the power to hire and fire the heads of the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, the FBI intelligence office and other agencies. www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2004-08-04-cia-overhall_x.htm   (470 words)

National Intelligence Strategy The Director of National Intelligence today released The National Intelligence Strategy of the United States of America, a publication that establishes the strategic objectives for the Intelligence Community. Its publication coincides with the six-month anniversary of the establishment of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). The National Intelligence Strategy of the United States of America www.dni.gov /release_letter_102505.html   (605 words)

United States Intelligence Community - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Intelligence Community reports to the United States Director of National Intelligence (DNI), who is the President's senior intelligence advisor. The Intelligence Community of the United States is an organization of several executive branch agencies within the federal government that are responsible for foreign and domestic intelligence, military planning, and espionage. The structure of the Intelligence Community was altered significantly by the passage of intelligence reform legislation in December 2004. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Intelligence_Community   (632 words)

Central Intelligence Agency - Biocrawler The National Security Advisor is a permanent cabinet member responsible for briefing the President on pertinent information collected from all U.S. intelligence agencies including the National Security Agency, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and others. Often cited as one of the American intelligence community's biggest blunders is the CIA involvement in equipping and training Mujahedeen fighters in Afghanistan in response to the Soviet invasion of the country. The current Director of the CIA is Porter Goss, who was nominated by President George W. Bush on 10 August, 2004 and was confirmed by the Senate on 21 September. www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/CIA   (2664 words)

Eric Pfeiffer on Director of National Intelligence on National Review Online Should the bill receive a successful hearing in the intelligence committee and included in the Defense Authorization bill, it would all but be assured of passage. An advocate of the Chambliss proposal within the intelligence community tells NRO, "The success of this issue is to have the Joint Chiefs of Staff involved. Under the currently proposed system, the DNI would receive their intelligence reports from 15 different agencies, eight military and seven civilian. www.nationalreview.com /comment/pfeiffer200504120910.asp   (993 words)

Law, Terrorism & Homeland Security- Greg McNeal Important Job, Impossible Position-- Director of National Intelligence The core of the new act, which reflects the commission's principal recommendation, is the creation of the post of director of national intelligence; the director would be the presiding deity of the nation's intelligence system." link Within days both presidential candidates had endorsed most of the commission's recommendations; within weeks there were bills in Congress; within months the president had signed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. A resource for terrorism experts and homeland security professionals, featuring more than 2,500 articles in a searchable archive. terrorismblog.powerblogs.com /posts/1107963233.shtml   (323 words)

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