For instance, we discovered yesterday that neither the Director of National Intelligence, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency nor the Secretary of Homeland Security were consulted before the decision was taken to allow Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab to lawyer-up in Detroit.
But as George Tenet, a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has argued, an intelligence director with only general supervisory powers could weaken co-ordination not strengthen it.
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Among the participants were former Secretaries of Defense James Schlesinger and Caspar Weinberger , the former Director of Naval Nuclear Reactors, Admiral Kinnaird McKee , the former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Vice Admiral Al Burkhalter , former Under Secretary of Defense Don Hicks and former chief strategic arms negotiator Ambassador Linton Brooks .
John Owen Brennan, of Virginia, to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, vice David H.
With Senate confirmation, I know that he will be an outstanding Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Yesterday, I nominated William Webster, a man of sterling reputation, to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
He tapped John Brennan to serve as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and he asked Sen.
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As Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, he has continued to serve with characteristic intellectual rigor, dedication, and patriotism.
Hayden was director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2006 to 2009.
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Today, I accepted his resignation as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
John McLaughlin, deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, briefed the ministers on Iraq and its connection to terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
But if confirmed by the Senate, I will consider it to be the honor of my life to serve as the 21st Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
After announcing Chuck Hagel as his nominee for the next Secretary of Defense, President Obama today nominated John Brennan as the next Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, William Webster, remarked in a similar vein on the growing challenge to U.S. counter-espionage capabilities by Soviet military and KGB operations under Gorbachev.
Mr. Gates, a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, said government interrogators should be limited to the techniques contained in the Army Field Manual and barred from using harsher methods.
On the first point, it would be unfortunate I think if in pursuit of this issue, which was highly politicized, the Senate would hold up the nomination of John Brennan to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Then he was appointed to a series of high-level positions: Ambassador to the United Nations, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Chief of the U. S. Liaison Office in the People's Republic of China, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
The Council itself included the President, Vice President, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and other members (such as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency), who met at the White House to discuss both long-term problems and more immediate national security crises.
With Texas as home base, he then turned to politics and public service, serving as a member of Congress, U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Chief of the U. S. Liaison Office in the People's Republic of China, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and later as Vice President.
With the bipartisan confirmation of John Brennan as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Senate has recognized in John the qualities I value so much his determination to keep America safe, his commitment to working with Congress, his ability to build relationships with foreign partners, and his fidelity to the values that define us as a nation.
Even before his past had been disclosed, two of the SEC's five commissioners had opposed his appointment on the grounds that the 78-year-old, a former director of both the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was not qualified for the job of regulating the securities industry.
Following the 2001 terrorist attacks, U.S. intelligence services sought to find common ground with their Russian counterparts, but soon discovered their interests diverged, said Andrew Liepman, former deputy director of the National Counterterrorism Center and a Central Intelligence Agency veteran.
Through the leadership of Director George Tenet, we have forged an unprecedented relationship with the men and women of the Central Intelligence Agency in the counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism arenas.
The confluence of these matters was embodied in Bill Casey's distinguished Wall Street and Washington careers, the latter of which included service as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Director the Central Intelligence Agency.
He's given a tour by director Peter Earnest, himself a veteran of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Ms. Kelley's apparent regret points to one of the more unusual aspects of the case: what began as a seemingly minor case of cyberstalking mushroomed into fears that the Central Intelligence Agency director's personal email account had been hacked, which spawned concerns the CIA director might have passed sensitive information to his mistress.
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Echoes of "slam dunk" so vex former Central Intelligence Agency Director George Tenet that he has written a book.
David Petraeus, the current Central Intelligence Agency director who at the time was the commander in charge of the Afghanistan war.
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