I strongly agree that a National Intelligence Director…

The 9/11 commission recommended the appointment of a national intelligence director with budgetary authority to better coordinate the work of the intelligence community and…

— Ronald Kessler

The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to…

— Leonard Boswell

I would have never thought that I would hear myself saying that the president of the United States is afraid of the CIA. But…

— Ray McGovern

You have multiple intelligence agencies. They all ultimately report to the director of national intelligence but, you know, it never comes in neat packages.…

— Raymond Kelly

Lieutenant General Michael Flynn ran the defense intelligence agency from 2012 to 2014. He served as a top national intelligence adviser to General Stanley…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

As Director of National Intelligence, I am entrusted with access to more intelligence than any member of the U.S. government other than the president.…

— John Ratcliffe

Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and…

— Jim Ramstad

The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget.…

— Leonard Boswell

The intelligence community's 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) stated, in a formal presentation to President Bush and to Congress, its view that Saddam had…

— Laurence Silberman

I was hoping to catch [Vladimir] Putin in a lie - like what happened to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper [in his congressional…

— Edward Snowden

We want the National Intelligence, we want the Police, we want the Scorpions, any other institutions, the tax people, and so on, the totality…

— Thabo Mbeki

“The Snowden revelations have also exposed the fact that senior officials, particularly America's Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, have not been fully frank…

— Edward Lucas

A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this…

— Jane Harman

As someone who has worked in national security, including directly with the Director of National Intelligence, I cannot vote to put our nation's trust…

— Andy Kim

Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.

— Blanche Lincoln