Community Quote by Ronald Kessler

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

I strongly agree that a National Intelligence Director should be established to oversee and coordinate the 15 federal intelligence agencies.

— Jim Ramstad

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

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

It is very important that the director of the Central Intelligence Agency adhere to the same classification guidelines that all employees must adhere to…

— Gina Haspel

When I was first elected to the Senate, I was fortunate to be appointed to the Intelligence Committee. There, I saw up close the…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

The government would assert that individuals who are aware of serious wrongdoing in the intelligence community should bring their concerns to the people most…

— Edward Snowden

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

The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how…

— Jane Harman

In order to do vigorous oversight, the leadership of the intelligence community has got to be straight with the American people and straight with…

— Ron Wyden

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.

— Richard Perle

Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.

— Mike Rogers