“Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.” NeedsCommunityInformationDirectorsOperationsCoordinationIntelligence CommunityCounter TerrorismNational Intelligence Author:Jim Ramstad
“A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.” YearsIdeasAbleLastsDirectorsStructureDemocraticIncludingNational Intelligence Author:Jane Harman
“The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions.” DecisionDirectorsDevelopingBudgetsCloutImplementingNational Intelligence Author:Leonard Boswell
“The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget.” NeedsMeanJobsDirectorsAuthorityAskingBudgetsNational Intelligence Author:Leonard Boswell
“I would have never thought that I would hear myself saying that the president of the United States is afraid of the CIA. But he is. He's afraid of the NSA as well. How else to explain that the National Intelligence director, who lied under oath to his senate overseers on the 12th of March 2013, is still the director of National Intelligence?” WellsStillsStatesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesDirectorsMarchSenateLiedCiaOathNsaNational Intelligence Author:Ray McGovern