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ODNI General Counsel Robert Litt’s As Prepared Remarks on Signals Intelligence Reform at the Brookings Institute
the weeds on this, but I think this is important for people to understand. To begin with, neither NSA nor any other intelligence agency decides on its own what to collect. Each year the President sets the nation’s highest priorities for foreign...
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Explore the Journey of the Intelligence Community: Our History, Agencies, and Collective Mission
U.S. government? Learn more about this I.C. member: https://www.state.gov/.../bureau-of-intelligence-and.../ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) - Established in 1947 The CIA collects human intelligence, produces objective all-source analysis, and...
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PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY AND NATIONAL SECURITY: An Overview of Intelligence Collection by Robert S. Litt, ODNI General Counsel
I wish that I was here in happier times for the Intelligence Community. The last several weeks have seen a series of reckless disclosures of classified information about intelligence activities. These disclosures threaten to cause long-lasting and...
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Remarks as delivered by DNI Clapper at the Ethos and Profession of Intelligence
The CIA’s modernization effort that John talked about, integrating disciplines and capabilities across the Central Intelligence Agency, will make it more agile and more responsive to world events and to our customers’ needs, and to what I’ve called,...
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A Conference on Today's Competitive Geopolitical Landscape -- In Honor of Robert Jervis
at us that much faster, more complex and everything else. And across the Community, if you talk to every head of an intelligence agency or department, they will tell you that recruiting and retaining a diverse and talented workforce is the most...
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A Conference on Today's Competitive Geopolitical Landscape -- In Honor of Robert Jervis
at us that much faster, more complex and everything else. And across the Community, if you talk to every head of an intelligence agency or department, they will tell you that recruiting and retaining a diverse and talented workforce is the most...
https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/speeches-interviews/speeches-interviews-2023/3684-a-conference-on-today-s-competitive-geopolitical-landscape-in-honor-of-robert-jervis -
Remarks as Delivered by The Honorable James R. Clapper Director of National Intelligence AFCEA/INSA National Security and Intelligence Summit
This is truly remarkable, to see INSA and AFCEA co-hosting this summit. It’s extra special for me, because I’m somewhat of an “INSA hipster.” I was into INSA before it was cool. [laughter] Actually, I was into INSA before it was INSA. In the late ‘90s,...
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What is Intelligence?
Intelligence is information gathered within or outside the U.S. that involves threats to our nation, its people, property, or interests; development, proliferation, or use of weapons of mass destruction; and any other matter bearing on the U.S....
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DNI Clapper's As Delivered Remarks at Morehouse College Lecture
And I was elated in January 2015 when Lt. Gen. Vince Stewart was sworn in as the first black director of a major intelligence agency at the Defense Intelligence Agency – long, long overdue. I’m especially proud of Vince, because he’s also the first...
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Fireside Chat with DNI Haines at the Reagan National Defense Forum
Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines engaged in a fireside chat on a range of national security topics with Andrea Mitchell from NBC News at the Reagan National Defense Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley,...
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Fireside Chat with DNI Haines at the Reagan National Defense Forum
Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines engaged in a fireside chat on a range of national security topics with Andrea Mitchell from NBC News at the Reagan National Defense Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley,...
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Transcript: Newseum Special Program - NSA Surveillance Leaks: Facts and Fiction
Robert Litt, ODNI General Counsel, appeared on a panel at the Newseum co-sponsored by the ABA and Medill School of Journalism entitled “NSA Surveillance Leaks: Facts & Fiction” on June 25, 2013. Newseum Special Program: NSA Surveillance Leaks: Facts...
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Remarks as delivered by The Honorable DNI James R. Clapper: Transparency in Intelligence “With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility” at the AFCEA/INSA National Security and Intelligence Summit
It’s great to be back on this stage with this integrated AFCEA and INSA group. I’ve spent the past 5 years preaching the gospel of “intelligence integration.” It’s been my major theme during my tenure as DNI. It’s really the reason my office exists....
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Remarks as delivered by DNI James R. Clapper on “National Intelligence, North Korea, and the National Cyber Discussion” at the International Conference on Cyber Security
horizontally, across agency lines, with each agency on equal footing and stature. I’m speaking of the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, etc. But I also believe we have to work toward vertical...
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Director of National Intelligence Avril D. Haines Releases the 2023 National Intelligence Strategy for the Intelligence Community
Additional IC leaders shared the following statements on the strategy’s announcement. Director Bill Burns, Central Intelligence Agency: “Today’s world is increasingly complicated and contested, and one in which humanity faces both peril and promise. We...
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Director of National Intelligence Avril D. Haines Releases the 2023 National Intelligence Strategy for the Intelligence Community
Additional IC leaders shared the following statements on thestrategy’s announcement. Director Bill Burns, Central Intelligence Agency: “Today’s world is increasingly complicated and contested, and one in which humanity faces both peril and promise. We...
https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/press-releases-2023/3714-director-of-national-intelligence-avril-d-haines-releases-the-2023-national-intelligence-strategy-for-the-intelligence-community -
Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by the Honorable Dan Coats Director of National Intelligence Presentation of the 2019 National Intelligence Strategy
24 hours a day, 365 days a year, the men and women of the Intelligence Community work in every part of the world, dedicated to one mission – to keep America and her interests safe. Their mission is guided by faith in the IC’s core principles: To seek...
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Geospatial Intelligence Forum Interview with Robert Cardillo
of analysis and collection. Prior to this assignment, Cardillo served as the deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency [DIA]. The deputy director is the second- ranking position at DIA and assists the director in both the daily operation and...
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DNI Clapper's As Delivered Remarks at the Business Executives for National Security & INSA Event
Over the past few years, certainly over my tenure as DNI, we’ve held a very public conversation about our work – the work of the Intelligence Community – and how we should conduct it. I believe, a lot of what has been lost in the public debate about...
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DNI Clapper's As Delivered Remarks at the 2015 GEOINT Symposium
This is my eleventh GEOINT Symposium, going back to the first one in 2003. I typically open by talking about the ways the geospatial intelligence community is leading intelligence and how you feel like family to me, and I recite my lines about how great...
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