tailieunhanh - The Position of Director of National Intelligence: Issues for Congress

This observation marks a departure from more traditional views of the interaction between the executive director and the board of directors in governance matters. Some organizations reading this report may wish to increase the extent of the executive director’s participation in board matters to reflect what the interviewees described and I have summarized. The degree to which the relationship improves can be tangible but, as with any organizational change, this happens only if change is managed fairly and appropriately. Before embarking upon any changes in an effort to improve the relationship, organizations should first reflect at length on the nature. | Order Code RL32506 CRS Report for Congress Received through the CRS Web The Position of Director of National Intelligence Issues for Congress Updated August 12 2004 Alfred Cumming Specialist in Intelligence and National Security Foreign Affairs Defense and Trade Division Congressional Research Service The Library of Congress The Position of Director of National Intelligence Issues for Congress Summary The 9 11 Commission in its recent report on the attacks of September 11 2001 criticized the . Intelligence Community s IC fragmented management structure and questioned whether the . government and the IC in particular is organized adequately to direct resources and build the intelligence capabilities that the . will need to counter terrorism and to address the broader range of national security challenges in the decades ahead. The Commission made a number of recommendations one of which was to replace the current position of Director of Central Intelligence with a National Intelligence Director NID who would oversee national intelligence centers on specific subjects of interest - including a National Counterterrorism Center NCTC - across the . government manage the national intelligence program oversee the agencies that contribute to it and have hiring firing and budgetary authority over the IC s 15 agencies. The Commission recommended that the director and the NCTC be located in the Executive Office of the President and that a deputy NID be established to oversee the day-to-day operations of the Central Intelligence Agency CIA . The Commission s recommendation to strengthen management authority over the IC is the latest contribution to an IC structural reform debate that dates at least to 1955 when arguments for stronger IC authority began to surface. OMB deputy director James Schlesinger in 1971 first broached the DNI concept. Recently some Members of Congress have introduced intelligence community reform legislation that would establish the position of