Posted on 01/20/2017 4:08:22 AM PST by markomalley
One national security priority of the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trumpis to reform the heavily bureaucratized and, to some critics, politicized U.S. intelligence community.
Mr. Trump recently clashed with intelligence officials over the disclosure of a false dossier produced by a former British intelligence official that was leaked by someone in the U.S. government in a bid to embarrass the new president.
A source close to the Trump transition team said plans to do away with the director of national intelligence are still being considered, despite the announced nomination of former Indiana Republican Sen. Dan Coats to be the new DNI.
The reform could include reverting to the old system of having a director of central intelligence as a nominal chief of the 17 U.S. intelligence agencies who also ran the CIA. The new system could include separate DCI and CIA directors.
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I always thought it was a big mistake in subsuming all the other 16 ICs under and Office of the Director Of National Intelligence.
In effect, it became the focal point for filtering, obfuscation and political focusing that responds more to political pressures rather than providing unadulterated intelligence assessments to the President.
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We don’t need 17 intelligence agencies.
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