Trump looks for permanent national intelligence director
Associated PressAmbassador to Germany Richard Grenell is the new acting national intelligence director, but he’s expected to be a short-timer overseeing the nation’s 17 spy agencies. “What it signals is that Donald Trump is now making clear what we long suspected: That he has no use for a director of national intelligence,” said Ned Price, a former CIA officer who served as a special assistant to President Barack Obama on the National Security Council. The 2004 law establishing the position says the director “shall have extensive national security expertise.” Previous directors have included retired Vice Adm. John “Mike” McConnell, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper and Dan Coats, who served on the Intelligence Committee as a Republican senator from Indiana in addition to being a diplomat. “It’s always good for the head of your intel community to be in good with the president,” said Pfeiffer, director of the Hayden Center for Intelligence Policy and International Security at George Mason University.
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