As part of our ongoing transparency efforts to enhance public understanding of the Intelligence Community’s (IC) work and to provide insights on national security issues, ODNI today is releasing this declassified Sense of the Community Memorandum (SOCM) dated 12 October 2022.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released the following statement:
“Since the 19 August 2024 joint ODNI, FBI, and CISA public statement on Iranian Election Influence Efforts, the FBI has learned additional details about Iran’s efforts to sow discord and shape the outcome of U.S. elections.
A group huddled around a long table to discuss whether the President should travel to a conflict zone amid rising national security concerns. After analyzing the latest intelligence and conferring with counterparts, they decided that the President could safely make the trip.
Twenty-three years later, Gary Greco can still vividly picture Ron Bucca waving goodbye and passing through the Pentagon Metro Station turnstiles.
On August 27, 2024, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines delivered a speech at the 2024 INSA/AFCEA Intelligence and National Security Summit. The speech is available to view here, and remarks as delivered are below.