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...After Republican Pat Roberts, the powerful Intelligence Committee Chairman, decided to go along with the measure, the Senate unanimously approved a defense spending amendment by Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy ordering up the NIE. But after the senators' prodding, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Negroponte plans to start drafting an NIE right away - without waiting for enactment of legislation calling for it. DNI spokeswman Judi Emmel tells TIME Negroponte agrees that a new NIE is needed and will be drafted. "The DNI believes it is timely to prepare an updated estimate, given a variety of pressing questions concerning Iraq...
...State Department. The experience of being in the minority on such hot-button reports as the pre-war estimate, Fingar said, has helped him reform the NIE drafting process. "That has informed the way in which we have approached artificial consensus or premature consensus," said Fingar, now the Deputy DNI for Analysis...
...filing could also raise awkward questions for Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Negroponte because Keyser's wife Margaret Lyons is a senior CIA official on loan in a sensitive post helping set up a new open-source unit of DNI. The prosecutors' filing says Lyons had known for about a year that Keyser had improperly kept classified documents at home. Worse, current and former U.S. government officials tell TIME, an FBI search of the couple's home found CIA documents that Lyons had there without authorization. In a Feb. 22 letter to the judge in Keyser's case, Lyons...
...filing could also raise awkward questions for Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Negroponte because Keyser?s wife, Margaret Lyons, is a senior CIA official on loan in a sensitive post helping set up a new open-source unit of DNI. The prosecutors? filing says Lyons had known for about a year that Keyser had improperly kept classified documents at home. Worse, current and former U.S. government officials tell TIME, an FBI search of the couple?s home found CIA documents that Lyons had there without authorization. In a Feb. 22 letter to the judge in Keyser?s case, Lyons...
...When Hayden's nomination was announced early last month, Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte said that he hoped to bring Kappes back as Hayden's deputy. Officials said this was a signal to CIA employees that the White House, DNI and a military general were not planning to impose their will randomly on the CIA but aim to continue reforming the Agency with the guidance of a respected veteran spook. At his confirmation hearing in mid-May, CIA Director Hayden praised Kappes, calling him "a guy who knows the business...