The National Intelligence Council, however, is about as hard-headed an organisation as can be imagined.
The National Intelligence Council commissioned a report for upcoming global trends out to the year 2030.
The chairmanship of the National Intelligence Council differs from those cases, for it does not require Senate confirmation.
Congressional sources claim that Obama has selected Scowcroft to replace Chas Freeman as chairman of the National Intelligence Council.
Either way, it is malfeasance to entrust the National Intelligence Council to him.
Who will be the next choice to fill the position vacated by Freeman for chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC)?
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Meanwhile, another report (PDF) from the National Intelligence Council, released in February, warned of security threats due to water issues.
Mr. TOM FINGAR (Director, National Intelligence Council): Climate change is an issue on which intelligence - covertly, clandestinely acquired information - is not very helpful.
Mr. Meyer served during the Reagan administration as special assistant to the director of Central Intelligence and vice chairman of the CIA's National Intelligence Council.
Until accepting his appointment as chairman of the National Intelligence Council, Freeman was a paid member of the Chinese government-owned China National Offshore Oil Company's international advisory board.
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The official statement from the agency: The National Intelligence Council (NIC) is a U.S. Government entity, operating as part of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).
In a little-noticed report sent to Congress in February, the National Intelligence Council, an umbrella panel representing U.S. spy agencies, detailed the threat posed by stored Russian nuclear weapons.
Ellen Laipson, former vice chair of the National Intelligence Council, finds in this persuasive evidence of an administration that has not changed its fundamental convictions, but is choosing its battles.
"In fact, there was a specific 1999 National Intelligence Council report that proposed the possibility of jihadist, al Qaeda, suicide squad members crashing explosives-laden planes into the Pentagon, the CIA and the White House, " Ben-Veniste said.
The article, by Walter Pincus, described how former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia Charles "Chas" Freeman is blaming Israel's Jewish American supporters for his resignation Tuesday from his post as chairman of the National Intelligence Council.
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Worse yet, past problems with "group think" - the absence of vitally needed dissenting opinions and competitive analysis - are likely to be compounded by Fingar also being designated the Chairman of the National Intelligence Council.
Chairman, National Intelligence Council, Central Intelligence Agency.
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Fingar's Iran NIE was of a piece with the bit of political theater that got him appointed in the first place by then-Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte as not only the deputy for analysis but also as head of the National Intelligence Council.
In December of that year, the National Intelligence Council - then under the leadership of another product of the State Department, Thomas Fingar - produced an NIE that declared "with high confidence" that the Iranian mullahs had halted their nuclear weapons program in 2003.
Henry S. Rowen, assistant defense secretary (international security affairs) and chairman, National Intelligence Council, Central Intelligence Agency. (NOTE: The military officers are all now retired.) The following are excerpts from this study titled, "U.S. Forces on the Golan Heights: An Assessment of Benefits and Costs, " published by the Center for Security Policy.
Rosenberg, the Director of Policy Analysis for the IPF, wrote recently that "as a guy on trial for espionage, " Rosen had no right to point out that Charles Freeman, US President Barack Obama's initial choice to serve as Director of the National Intelligence Council, had a record of egregiously anti-Israel behavior and action.
These include: Ambassador John Negroponte , the Director of National Intelligence, Tom Fingar , his deputy for Analysis and Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, and Ambassador Kenneth Brill , Director of the National Counter-Proliferation Center - a critically important job for which he seems particularly ill-suited by temperament and past track record of reflexive acquiescence to various instances of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Similarly, if the chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC) - the organization responsible for producing the National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs) that are supposed to reflect the best insights of the intelligence community as a whole and that usually guide U.S. government security decision-making - has a well-established and anti-American policy agenda, he will likely try to discount or exclude insights from NIEs that conflict with his biases.
CIA, and was previously intelligence chief at the National Security Council and staff director of the Senate's intelligence committee.
Although the documents related to the alleged Niger-Iraqi uranium deal had not yet been determined to be forgeries, officials who were reviewing the draft remarks on uranium raised several concerns about the fragmentary nature of the intelligence with National Security Council colleagues.
Joining me to discuss the way the, the way forward and how we're going to do it is someone who works at the White House, the Senate, State Department and the former Director of Intelligence at National Security Council, Philip Bobbitt, good morning Philip, as everybody said it's not that Bobbitt, you are Philip Bobbitt.
The IDF, the national security council, all intelligence agencies and the government as well as the media have all agreed that Israel's entire regional approach will have to change dramatically in the event that Egypt's regime is overthrown.
In 1947, President Truman signed the National Security Act, creating the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The Center was honored to have as its second guest former Director of Central Intelligence and the Center's National Security Advisory Council Co-Chairman, Hon.
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the statutory military advisor to the Council, and the Director of National Intelligence is the intelligence advisor.
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