Director of National Intelligence

Obama's New Counterterrorism Message Is Good, But the Messenger Has Problems

Frank Naif | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics


Frank Naif

John Brennan's role as a top national security honcho in the Obama administration shows the limitations of Obama's "look to the future, not to the past" mantra.

Marcus Baram

Intelligence Director: Iran Covertly Supplying Arms To Taliban, CIA Closely Tracking Global Economic Crisis

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 09.06.2009 | World


As the body count rises for U.S. troops in Afghanistan - four Marines were killed by a roadside bomb on Thursday, making August on track to be one of ...

Speaking Truth to Intelligence

Joe Cirincione | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics


Joe Cirincione

Cleaning out our stable of intelligence officials is a Herculean task. We are lucky to have men like Dennis Blair and Leon Panetta willing to sacrifice for the good of the nation.

Regarding Panetta: Let's Not Forget About Gates

Kristen Breitweiser | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics


Kristen Breitweiser

Placing an inexperienced person like Leon Panetta at CIA for his clean hands and "managerial expertise" will cost lives on the day of the next domestic terrorist attack.

Top Intelligence Picks a No-Win for Obama

Tim Shorrock and Frank Naif | Posted 01.03.2009 | Politics


Tim Shorrock and Frank Naif

The Obama transition team's highly anticipated announcement of its new national security lineup has telling omissions: there's no Director of National Intelligence or CIA Director.

Seth Colter Walls

Ex-CIA Analysts: McLaughlin Being Considered For Top Intel Post

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 12.13.2008 | Politics


Two recently retired CIA analysts have told the Huffington Post that John McLaughlin, a former deputy CIA director, is being considered by the Obama t...

Bush Intel Reorganization Gives National Intelligence Director More Power

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — President Bush's new executive order revising rules for intelligence agencies expands the national intelligence director's powers a...

U.S. Intel Chief Includes False Chain Email Story In Speech

LA Times | Andrew Malcolm | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Over the weekend, when many of you were out doing errands instead of postponing work at your office desk by visiting The Ticket and learning lots of t...

US Spychief's Plan To Monitor Internet Raises Major Privacy Issues

Wall Street Journal | Siobhan Gorman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Spychief Mike McConnell is drafting a plan to protect America's cyberspace that will raise privacy issues and make the current debate over surveillanc...

Intelligence Czar McConnell A Principal Architect Of Private Security Industry

KPIX - CBS 5 San Francisco | Frank Viviano | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Where does the buck stop? It�s a question that Washington has ignored through a long succession of scandals in Iraq, while senior offficials plead i...