Veteran national security reporter Bill Gertz offers a piece in the Washington Times on how President Trump will reform the intelligence community.
One national security priority of the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump is 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.
That would leave Mr. Coats as the DCI along with Rep. Mike Pompeo, the director-designate of the CIA. Both are conservatives who favor reforming the current intelligence system.
You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/18/donald-trump-to-reform-us-intelligence-community/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT0RWbFlUQmtOMk5sWTJVMCIsInQiOiIweXZPSndkd21CUCtCMWZZb2JrSmo3VVViV3NxdnRzS3dLTG1tbWV6dXNVNlVPbUtOSnFiaERQUGY4MnZ0KzcreW5BXC9uemtadVR3QVJSdk5cL0tNRXZCbHNScTlHTUFjQjg1ZHM5VUk4QUVXTm0yKzNiMEhiK2d3ZVVma21hTGIrIn0%3D
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