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A $100 million program that allowed the National Security Agency to access American citizens’ domestic phone logs and text messages produced just two unique leads from 2015 to 2019, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
A declassified study conducted by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, an oversight organization established by Congress in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, sheds light on the NSA operation to collect certain phone logs and text messages. The operation was authorized under the USA Freedom Act of 2015, but in four years the operation produced 15 leads, only two of which provided information the FBI did not already possess. Only one of those unique leads panned out into an investigation. “Based on one report, FBI vetted an individual, but, after vetting, determined that no further action was warranted,” the study said regarding the unique leads. “The second report provided unique information about a telephone number, previously known to U.S. authorities, which led to the opening of a foreign intelligence investigation.” The Oversight Board’s chairman, Adam Klein, praised the NSA for shutting down the operation after the agency concluded it was problematic. “It shows a lot of judgment to acknowledge that something that consumed a lot of resources and time did not yield the value anticipated,” Klein told the Times. “We want agencies to be able to reflect on their collection capabilities and wind them down where appropriate. That’s the best way to ensure civil liberties and privacy are balanced with operational needs.” The news comes before a Wednesday House Judiciary Committee meeting on whether to adjust aspects of the USA Freedom Act. The legislation is itself a modification of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and is set to expire on March 15. The Trump administration is mulling whether to renew the legislation following the Justice Department Inspector General report on FISA abuses by the FBI, in the agency’s application for a warrant to wiretap former Trump-campaign adviser Carter Page.
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The KGB Inspector Khlestakov goes to Washington, to be carefully inspected; and other FBI news.
Putin and Aliyev asked Trump personally to give him a promotion instead of prison, and to Washington the Napoleon – KGB Inspector goes, to check on his FBI-KGB troops.
Inspector Khlestakov will continue his old job, now as Very Special Operation and Trump’s personal assignment, to continue his Cointelpro nanipulations on Michael Novakhov. Reserve two beds in a State Psychiatric Hospital: both of them are going to end up there very soon. We will treat them with electroshocks for their depression, misery, and grandiose Schizophrenia. It will not help them much, but will teach them and their ilk a lesson: Do not even think about messing up with Mike, you, little KGB rats! Labor camp for both of you! Siberia! You will share the same prison cell there with your old crony Putin. And over there you can perform the Khlestakovs as much as you want, to your hearts content, and to the World Internet audience delight. We will broadcast your little show in real time through the prison surveillance cameras. Get ready, boys!
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James B. Comey, the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who was fired by President Donald J. Trump in 2017, defended his controversial tenure as head of the FBI at a Harvard Institute of Politics forum Monday night.
In a more than hour-long discussion with Eric B. Rosenbach, co-director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, Comey acknowledged that decisions he made in handling investigations into Trump and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton “hurt the FBI.” However, he insisted repeatedly during the discussion that he made the best possible choices given the situations he was in. “Decisions that I made hurt the FBI — and that’s important,” Comey said in response to a question from Rosenbach about public trust in the Bureau. “I still believe if I had chosen the other door, I would’ve hurt the FBI worse. But there’s no doubt, I knew we were spending the FBI’s credibility.” Less than two weeks before Election Day 2016, Comey sent shockwaves through the political sphere when he reopened an investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server while she served as Secretary of State under then-President Barack Obama. Comey has also drawn criticism for publicly assailing Clinton as being “careless” during a July 2016 press conference during which he announced the FBI would not recommend charges against her. Following her loss to Trump, Clinton publicly said Comey was a factor in her defeat. Asked by audience member Benjamin B. Bolger whether he would apologize to Clinton for his actions, Comey said he would not. “If you really understand the position we were in — that I was in — on October 28, you walk away saying, ‘Oh my god, that was a very hard decision,’” Comey said. “So I’d want her to understand that.” Comey said he has never met Clinton, but added it was “painful” for him that she wrote in her book she had been “shivved” by him. Asked by an audience member if he would have written a different report than former Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III, who investigated Russian interference in the 2016 election, Comey assented. “If I had to do it over again in the benefit of hindsight, I would either not include any of the facts about obstruction or lay them all out and make the accusation,” Comey said. He added that he also would have tried to “communicate in a way that Americans consume information today,” as opposed to a 448-page report, which Mueller released to the public last April. In his report, Mueller found 10 actions by Trump that could have constituted obstruction of justice, but he declined to make a determination as to whether or not Trump broke any laws. Rosenbach also asked Comey about academic espionage and brought up the controversy surrounding Harvard Chemistry Chair Charles M. Lieber, who was placed on leave last month after being charged in federal court for failing to disclose funding from the Chinese government. Rosenbach called Lieber’s alleged actions “inappropriate.” “What we have to do in places like the FBI is simply sensitize the academic community to know everyone’s not a friend, and some people want to collaborate to develop better ideas — better formulas — but some people are working for an adversary to steal your stuff,” Comey said, though he added he was not familiar with Lieber’s case. Experts told The Crimson that Lieber’s arrest was part of an ongoing crackdown on academic espionage. Attendee Erin M. Guetzloe ’23 said she left Monday’s forum with a newfound respect for Comey. “I’m still skeptical of the decisions that he made, but I think that I leave with a more positive impression of him as a person,” Guetzloe said. Comey, who published a best-selling book in 2018, said at the event he was satisfied with his actions as FBI director. “I’m really proud of the way we conducted ourselves,” Comey said. —Staff writer Jasper G. Goodman can be reached at jasper.goodman@thecrimson.com. Follow him on Twitter @Jasper_Goodman. | |||||||||
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The Justice Department watchdog referred FBI agent Stephen Somma for disciplinary review after an investigation into alleged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuses.
Somma, a counterintelligence investigator in the FBI's New York field office, was identified only as "Case Agent 1" in Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report, released in December. Sources told the New York Times that Somma is that official. The FBI did not comment for the report. Somma was “primarily responsible for some of the most significant errors and omissions" during the process of obtaining FISA warrants to wiretap Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in 2016 and 2017, according to Horowitz. Horowitz confirmed the FBI relied heavily upon British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s salacious and unverified dossier when pursuing the secret surveillance. The DOJ watchdog found 17 “significant inaccuracies and omissions” in the FBI's applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to wiretap Page, who was under suspicion of being an agent for Russia. He was never charged with any wrongdoing. Horowitz wrote that Somma and an unnamed Staff Operations Specialist “were the original Crossfire Hurricane team members who had primary responsibility over the Carter Page investigation.” FBI documents showed that in late August 2016, Somma was told he had “not yet presented enough information to support a FISA application targeting Carter Page.” Somma told Horowitz’s investigators “that the team's receipt of the reporting from Steele [in September] supplied missing information in terms of what Page may have been doing during his July 2016 visit to Moscow and provided enough information on Page's recent activities that [Somma] thought would satisfy the Office of Intelligence.” “Case Agent 1 said he prepared the FISA request form,” Horowitz wrote. “The FISA request form drew almost entirely from Steele's reporting in describing the factual basis to establish probable cause to believe that Page was an agent of a foreign power. “We found no information indicating that the FBI provided the Office of Intelligence with the documents containing Page's denials before finalizing the first FISA application,” Horowitz wrote. “Instead, Case Agent 1 provided a summary that did not contain those denials to the OI Attorney and that the OI Attorney relied upon that summary in drafting the first application.” The inspector general did not find that Somma or his immediate supervisors were politically biased. Horowitz also did not find evidence showing the “pattern of errors” were intentional, but he noted: “we also did not find his explanations for so many significant and repeated failures to be satisfactory." Horowitz said he did not have enough information to determine “whether it was sheer gross incompetence that led to this versus intentional misconduct or anything in between.” When questioned by a lawyer from DOJ’s Office of Intelligence about Page’s prior relationship with the CIA, Somma claimed those “interactions took place while Page was in Moscow (which was between 2004 and 2007)” and were “outside scope.” Because of this, the attorney “did not include information about Page's prior interactions” with the CIA in the FISA application. Horowitz said the information Somma provided was “incomplete, inaccurate, and in certain respects contrary to the information the other agency provided to the Crossfire Hurricane team on August 17, 2016 and that Carter Page had provided to the FBI in 2009 and 2013.” Page’s relationship with the CIA “actually overlapped with information alleged in the FISA application concerning his alleged ties to Russian intelligence officers.” Horowitz showed that Somma omitted significant information provided by confidential human source Stefan Halper — known as “Source 2” in the report. Halper met with and recorded Page in October 2016, before the FBI filed its first FISA application. Horowitz concluded Somma failed to include key “exculpatory” information from that meeting, including Page denying meeting with Russians mentioned in Steele’s report, denying knowledge of the WikiLeaks dissemination of the DNC emails hacked by the Russians, and denying any role in the GOP platform related to Russia. Halper, 75, a Virginia resident and Cambridge professor, worked as an FBI informant in 2016 and had discussions with at least three Trump campaign members: Page, foreign policy aide George Papadopoulos, and Trump campaign co-chairman Sam Clovis. Cambridge Intelligence Seminars, which involved gatherings of academics and intelligence officials, were put together by Halper and Sir Richard Dearlove, a former director of MI6 who spent decades with the British spy agency. Somma spoke at at least one of these seminars in November 2011, delivering a talk titled “The FBI and Russian illegals 2010” along with FBI agents George Ennis Jr. and Alan Kohler Jr. When Halper’s role as an FBI informant was leaked to the media in May 2018, it led to accusations from Trump and Republicans in Congress that the Obama administration used Halper as part of an illegal effort to spy on the Trump campaign, dubbed “Spygate” by allies of the president. Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, wrote to the Defense Department's Office of Net Assessment in January asking whether any of the funds from Pentagon contracts awarded to Halper were used for the FBI's Trump-Russia investigation. Kathleen Kavalec, then the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, met with Steele on Oct. 11, 2016, 10 days prior to the first FISA application, and Kavalec forwarded her notes to the FBI. During the meeting, Steele admitted he was encouraged by his client to get his research out before the 2016 election, signaling a political motivation. Kavalec’s notes also show she found flaws with Steele’s allegations and cast doubt on his credibility. Horowitz said an FBI liaison informed Somma in late November “that Kavalec had met with Steele, she had taken notes of their meeting, the liaison could obtain information from Kavalec about the meeting, and, according to Kavalec, the information from Steele's reporting about a Russian consulate being located in Miami was inaccurate.” But the FBI liaison “told us that he received no directives from the Crossfire Hurricane team to gather information from Kavalec regarding her contact with Steele.” Earlier this month, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified that current FBI employees involved in some of the events described in the FISA report "were referred to our Office of Professional Responsibility, which is our disciplinary arm." The FBI, Congress, and the FISA court itself have also been considering and implementing reforms following the inspector general's investigation. Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who altered a key document in FISA filings related to is the only person publicly known to be under criminal investigation by U.S. Attorney John Durham, who is conducting a review of the Russia investigation. "Case Agent 1" was one of 17 officials Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham asked Attorney General William Barr this month to make available for a transcribed interview for his review of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation and FISA orders against Page. | |||||||||
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The FBI and the NYPD raided the Times Square headquarters of Peter Nygard’s fashion company as part of a sex trafficking investigation, the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan said.
The searches were conducted Tuesday morning, Nicholas Biase, a spokesman for the US Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, confirmed to ABC News. He declined to elaborate. Nygard, 78, has been under investigation after a number of women accused him of sexually assaulting them at his Bahamas estate when they were young teens. Nygard’s Bahamas estate has been featured on "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous." A spokesman for the FBI’s New York field office declined to comment. Searches usually indicate the investigation is in the early stages and not an immediate precursor to criminal charges. The accusations were detailed in a lawsuit filed earlier this month. "When Nygard became aware of the investigation into his sex trafficking ring, he resorted to tactics of violence, intimidation, bribery, and payoffs to attempt to silence the victims and to continue his scheme," according to the lawsuit. Nygard, who has denied the allegations, has also been accused of abusive labor practices and tax evasion. Word of the searches was first reported by The New York Times. | |||||||||
| 8:36 AM 2/25/2020 - M.N.: These "ideas" do not contain any "ideas", or so it appears on a first glance... | TheAtlantic.com/ideas: IDEAS: Trump’s Most Dangerous Destruction Yet: What the president is doing to America’s intelligence community could have enormous repercussions for the 2020 election and the country’s preparedness for threats from around the world. | |||||||||
 Post Link: | https://fbinewsreview.blogspot.com/2020/02/836-am-2252020-mn-these-ideas-do-not.html | __________________________________________________________________ M.N.: These "ideas" do not contain any "ideas", or so it appears on a first glance. Every President tried to shape the Intelligence apparatus for their own purposes and in their own image, just like everything else. How successful they were, is a different question. John Kennedy fired Allen Dulles, and the rest became history. These dynamics are much more complex than the mechanical interactions. Trump will never be able to destroy the Intelligence machine, and the shaping process is bidirectional. Richard Grenell will be the adaptive and efficient communicative belt, assuring the smooth functioning of this machine, he has no intentions of destroying it. Richard is smart, strong, and a charmer, when he needs to be. I am not acquainted with him at all, that's how I see him from the Web. These are largely the intuitive "gut feelings", and if they change, which is quite possible, I will let you know. So far I have no reasons to change my overall impression, that Grenell's appointment is a very positive development: he will bring the fresh outlook, hopefully, the deeper conceptual understanding, judging from his actions as the Ambassador to Germany, new energy, and the all binding emotional cement. I do not think, that he will be subservient to anyone, this does not look like a part of his personality. We'll see. I do not think, in my very humble non-specialist, and the complete, total outsider opinion, that there is much to worry about, and the outcome might be surprisingly productive; again, intuitively. With regard to this piece of writing below, I just want to repeat: What are your ideas and your proves, or at least hunches? I did not see any. Put them in a tweet: nice (or nasty), sweet (or bitter), and most importantly, SHORT! This article itself is quite politicized, in accordance with the political orientation of its authors. Where are the "IDEAS"? Where is "THE BEAF"?! All this, in the article, are the report of facts, and the skewed one, at that. We have to learn how to present the ideas, if we have them , of course. This seems to be our problem, it seems: we do not have them. We do not think conceptually. We do not see the things further than the tips of our noses. We use the wrong glasses and microscopes. We need to change this equipment. And ziz iz what Richard Grenell can help us with, and beyond the Trump's Presidency, and his putative second term. It has to be on the long term basis, beyond today, and beyond elections, and beyond the politics, and politicking, and politicizing. Trump's goal is to survive, politically and personally. Grenell's goal is for America to survive and prosper, in all respects. These goals might or might not coincide. Grenell's task, apparently, to make them compatible. If it works for America, so be it. If it does not, he will not be able to make it work anyway, because much larger and much more powerful forces will be at work, more so than our very powerful Intelligence Community. "Who exactly will contradict him?" The People will. ___________________________________________________________________________ | |||||||||
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Years before becoming the nation’s top intelligence official, Richard Grenell touted his consulting work for clients in Iran, China and other countries, which included projects that could violate foreign lobbying laws or jeopardize his security clearance.
Last week, President Donald Trump appointed Grenell as the acting director of national intelligence, elevating him to an influential position that oversees all US intelligence agencies, even though he has no experience working in the intelligence community. An archived version of Grenell’s personal website says, “Grenell has worked with clients based in the U.S. as well as Iran, Kazakhstan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, China, Australia, Timor-Leste, and throughout Europe.” The site was apparently taken down in 2018. Two years before Grenell joined the Trump administration in 2018 to become the US ambassador to Germany, his company earned more than $100,000 from a foundation tied to the far-right Hungarian government, according to federal tax records. And Grenell also once published a series of columns favorable toward a Moldovan oligarch who is now a blacklisted fugitive facing allegations of massive corruption. Recent news reports and a close examination of Grenell’s financial disclosure forms raise additional questions about whether any of his clients were foreign governments or politicians. US law requires Americans to disclose any work with international clients to the Justice Department, which recently ramped up enforcement of these federal lobbying laws to curb foreign meddling in US politics. Support for Moldovan oligarchThe investigative outlet ProPublica reported Friday that Grenell worked in the US on behalf of a leading Moldovan politician, according to a person familiar with the relationship and another individual, but never registered as a foreign agent. CNN has not independently verified ProPublica’s reporting, but Grenell’s public financial disclosure form confirms that he received more than $5,000 from a lobbying firm that was involved in the effort.ProPublica highlighted two op-eds Grenell wrote in 2016 in which he defended his alleged client Vladimir Plahotniuc, who was fending off corruption allegations and trying to improve his image with a visit to Washington. CNN found two additional columns by Grenell, published in conservative outlets Fox News and Newsmax, in which he accused Plahotniuc’s critics of smearing him on behalf of the Kremlin. Plahotniuc, who was described by The New York Times as the “most-feared man” in the European country, fled Moldova in June after the new government charged him with corruption and seized many of his assets. Last month, the State Department blacklisted Plahotniuc for his “involvement in significant corruption” that “severely compromised the independence of democratic institutions in Moldova.” Just five weeks after that announcement, Trump tapped Grenell for the senior intelligence post. Senators had the chance to question Grenell during his in-person confirmation hearing in September 2017, but they didn’t ask about his work for foreign interests. This time around, there likely won’t be a confirmation hearing, because Trump installed Grenell as director of national intelligence only in an acting capacity, bypassing Congress. Potential FARA problemsOne Washington, DC, attorney who handles Foreign Agents Registration Act cases told CNN that investigators at the Justice Department regularly look in the press for evidence of improper foreign influence. That’s essentially what happened with Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn in November 2016 after he published an op-ed attacking a top critic of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Flynn later pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and admitted the FARA violation, though he is now trying to retract his guilty plea.It’s unclear whether Grenell was directed by any Moldovan officials to publish the op-eds in US outlets, and it’s not clear if his activities violated FARA. There is no public indication that the Justice Department is currently investigating Grenell. Craig Engle, a lawyer who is representing Grenell, declined to comment to CNN. But Engle told ProPublica that Grenell’s paid consulting work did not require him to register under FARA “because he was not working at the direction of a foreign power.” “Ric was not paid to write these stories, in fact he has written hundreds of stories on his own time to express his own views,” Engle told ProPublica. “But to be clear: he was not working for any individual, he was working for himself and was advocating the ideal of a pro-western political party that was emerging.” Engle made similar comments to the Washington Post on Monday, telling the newspaper Grenell had never been paid to express a foreign policy opinion. The Moldova project was just one of many foreign jobs for Grenell. In 2016, Grenell’s company earned more than $100,000 from the Magyar Foundation, which is almost entirely funded by the Hungarian government, according to federal records. His work for Hungary was first flagged by the Quincy Institute, a foreign policy think tank. Trump has grown close to Hungary’s far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orban and invited him to the White House last year. The foundation is based in the US and its filings with the Internal Revenue Service indicate that Grenell’s company was paid for “public relations.” The Justice Department has prosecuted people over their contacts with reporters on behalf of foreign clients, including President Barack Obama’s White House Counsel Greg Craig. Craig was ultimately acquitted last year of one FARA-related lying charge. | |||||||||
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Встреча с главой Республики Северная Осетия – Алания Вячеславом Битаровым
Владимир Путин провёл рабочую встречу с главой Республики Северная Осетия – Алания Вячеславом Битаровым. Обсуждалась социально-экономическая ситуация в регионе.
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| Grenell Gets Strong Grassroots Support for Acting DNI Post | |||||||||
President Donald Trump’s decision to have U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell serve as his acting director of national intelligence (DNI) drew enthusiastic support on Friday from a range of grassroots activists and Republican leaders on Capitol Hill.
© 2020 Newsmax. All rights reserved.Shortly after the White House announced the pick, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy hailed Grenell as “a great choice,” tweeting, “Ric has a proven track record of fighting for our country, and now, he will work every day to make sure Americans are safe.” Republican Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told Politico, “If you’re ambassador for some time in a country like Germany, you have a lot of exposure to intel activities and daily briefings and other things, and he’s a very smart, capable guy.” Trump touted the Grenell appointment on Wednesday in a tweet: “I am pleased to announce that our highly respected Ambassador to Germany, @RichardGrenell, will become the Acting Director of National Intelligence. Ric has represented our country exceedingly well and I look forward to working with him.” Grenell has served as ambassador to Germany since May 8, 2018, and has earned high marks for advancing the president’s agenda in Europe on increasing NATO spending, stopping Russia’s planned gas pipeline and curtailing business support for Iran. Among the other notable figures aggressively defending the Grenell choice:
“On Ric’s qualifications,” Gaetz remarked, “eight years at the U.N., two years in Germany, he advised the security council, and Berlin where he was active is one of the hotbeds of intelligence activity -- nothing happens there without the chief of station and the ambassador working together -- so Ric Grennell is very qualified.” Grenell will oversee 17 U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA, the DIA, the FBI’s intelligence branch, the NSA, the Office of Naval Intelligence, and the National Reconnaissance office. Grenell is the ninth director of national intelligence. The office was created in 2004 as a post-9/11 reform intended to improve information sharing and analysis within the intelligence community. He takes over Joseph Maguire, who was praised by Trump when he announced Grenell’s appointment “for the wonderful job he has done.” On Friday, Trump tweeted that “four great candidates” are under consideration for the permanent DNI job. | |||||||||
| Donald Trump Made the Right Choice of Picking Richard Grenell for DNI | |||||||||
President Donald Trump announced that he will make Richard Grenell the acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI), which is supposed to coordinate intelligence across America’s vast, $50 billion-per-year intelligence bureaucracy. The position was created in the years after the 9/11 attacks on the United States, which demonstrated a fundamental lapse in collating intelligence.
Grenell is currently the U.S. ambassador to Germany, and will continue in that role. He previously spent eight years at the U.S. mission to the United Nations during the intense diplomatic maneuvers there that coincided with the George W. Bush administration. Defenders of the failed status quo that is our intelligence bureaucracy immediately criticized Trump’s choice, as did the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee. In decrying the appointment, Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) vowed ominously, “the work of our intelligence professionals is never interfered with or manipulated for political ends.” But that just isn’t so. Some of our intelligence bureaucracies have become hopelessly politicized and ineffective. For example, the false claim that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia, which was debunked by the Mueller report, was instigated by Obama-era intelligence pooh-bahs on their way out, especially former DNI James Clapper and CIA director John Brennan. Both are now highly-paid political commentators on left-leaning cable networks. Also during the Obama administration, officials manipulated intelligence to paint an overly optimistic view of the fight against ISIS, which was failing at the time. Obama officials also phonied up intelligence to mislead the public and Congress about the attack on our diplomatic outpost in Libya that killed the U.S. ambassador. During the Bush administration, the DNI produced and leaked an assessment that claimed falsely that Iran had ended its nuclear weapons program. The underlying intelligence in the report said the opposite, but was classified. The false leaked version, designed by DNI bureaucrats successfully to tie President Bush’s hands-on Iran policy, was unclassified. Continuing the tradition of political warfare against our own democracy, intelligence bureaucrats reportedly told House Democrats recently that Russia will interfere in the 2020 elections and try to help Trump win. The second claim is dubious, since Moscow would probably prefer a president who hasn’t strengthened its opponents as much as Trump. The first claim is obvious, since Russia always tries to interfere in U.S. elections, mainly to cause discord and chaos, which Democrats have mightily abetted since Trump was elected.
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At best it is the work of bureaucrats covering their posteriors to say they didn’t miss an obvious foreign development. At worst, they are trying to undermine the president by attempting to revive the phony insinuation of collusion with Russia, which seems more likely since it was furnished to House Democrats. Clearly, despite Senator Warner’s admonition against politicizing intelligence, deep state bureaucrats long ago did just that. What really concerns Warner and the rest of the foreign policy establishment is that this nefarious activity will stop, not begin. They know that Grenell will not smile upon bureaucrats playing politician on the taxpayers’ dime. As ambassador to Germany, Grenell has established a new model for diplomacy. Instead of attending social events and limiting public utterances to sweet nothings about Germany and the rest of Europe, Grenell has been blunt and direct. He has unabashedly echoed concerns held by Trump and Congress about Germany not meeting its own promise to spend more on its defense, its willingness to make Europe dependent on energy imports from Russia, and its attempts to undermine U.S. sanctions on Iran. Grenell will bring this no-nonsense approach to DNI. Even in a short tenure before a permanent replacement is presented to the Senate for confirmation, which now takes many months, Grenell can trim a bureaucracy that has become bloated and seems more adept at politics than clarifying intelligence for the president and key Cabinet officers. Even though they never deliver, Democrats take gay votes and dollars for granted. Grenell’s appointment highlights the inconvenient fact that Trump has done more for gays than any president. As a candidate, he waved a rainbow flag from a stage and effectively ended the GOP’s hostility to gays by shifting the culture wars. As president, he has appointed gays to senior positions and treats them the same as anyone. Christian Whiton, a senior fellow at the Center for the National Interest, is the author of Smart Power: Between Diplomacy and War. He was a State Department senior advisor during the George W. Bush and Trump administrations. | |||||||||
| Grenell as DNI Director: Stop the Pearl-Clutching, He’s a Good Pick | |||||||||
There has been a lot of pearl clutching about Richard Grenell’s appointment as acting director of national intelligence (DNI). Evidently the appointment will be temporary; Grenell is staying as ambassador to Germany, and the White House is not going send his name to the Senate for confirmation as DNI.
It’s reasonable to criticize that arrangement. If Grenell is going to return to his duties in Germany, where he has done an outstanding job, I would prefer that he not be diverted from them now. But apart from that consideration, the appointment strikes me as a good one. Certainly there is no reason for the almost hysterical response that the choice has met in some quarters. The Directorate of National Intelligence and the DNI position were created in 2005. Its purpose is to assist the president in evaluating the intelligence collected by the 17 agencies that make up what is commonly called the “intelligence community,” or the IC. The DNI doesn’t have budgetary, personnel, or command authority over the community he overlooks; his job is to assess the intelligence that the IC creates, ask tough questions in an attempt to expose weakness or uncertainty, and present the views of the IC to the president in a useful form. If possible, the DNI should mediate differences among the various agencies to create a consensus view, but not to the point of suppressing honest differences of opinion that might affect the president’s decisions. In other words, the DNI is an evaluator, not an operator. Like top political leaders, he consumes rather than produces intelligence. The DNI doesn’t need to know how to run an operation or manage intelligence assets in hostile countries; in fact, he has no formal authority over those collection activities and would encounter immediate and ferocious resistance if he tried to interfere. The DNI does need good judgment, an understanding of the global context that makes intelligence meaningful, and a good relationship with the president and the leaders of the most important agencies in the IC — chiefly the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the NSA, and the FBI. The relationship with the president is especially important, because the DNI typically gives the president his daily briefing. If the president is going to sit with you for an hour every day, or most days, you had better be able to present information in a way he trusts and can use. For all these reasons, DNIs do not need to be, and often have not been, career intelligence officers. There have been five Senate-confirmed DNIs since the job was created. Only two of them (Admiral Mike McConnell and James Clapper) came from the IC. The first DNI — John Negroponte — was a career diplomat and ambassador who went on to be deputy secretary of state. Another, Admiral Dennis Blair, came out of the Surface Navy and was a former commander of the United States Pacific Command. The latest DNI was Dan Coates, a well-respected Senator who had been a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The point is that DNIs come from a number of different backgrounds. What they have in common is long experience assessing intelligence and the ability to approach intelligence estimates the way presidents must approach them: in the context of broader national-security issues. Grenell is in the mold of Negroponte. He has years of international experience at both the U.N. and as ambassador to Germany, as well as in private life. In those capacities, he has had ample opportunity to see the strengths and weaknesses of the IC. Grenell’s post in Germany, for example, puts him at the center of a vital intelligence node not just for Europe but for Russia and China as well. There are no doubt a number of IC attachés in the U.S. embassy and consulates in Germany. Technically, they report to Grenell, and while the actual relationship between ambassadors and attachés can vary, I’m certain that Grenell has been an eager, active, and (where necessary) critical consumer of the intelligence he receives, which is exactly as it should be. I worked with Grenell on the Romney campaign in 2012; he is a clear thinker who adapts quickly to different roles. In addition, Grenell is close to the president, which as I said is a definite advantage; he has the courage of his convictions, which is always desirable; and he is willing to probe and question inertial bureaucratic assumptions, which for the DNI is a necessity. Again, my main concern is whether Grenell will have enough time to have a real impact as DNI. Typically, acting DNIs have come from inside the intelligence community; everyone knows that they will return to their old job and will still be a presence in the IC. Grenell, on the other hand, will be leaving the IC and returning to the diplomatic world. The tendency will be for the IC to cut him out of the loop, given that its members resent the DNI at the best of times. But the president can help a lot if he makes clear to the other major players that they have to take Grenell seriously even though he will be there for only a relatively short while. I well remember the legislation that created the DNI 15 years ago. The concern at the time was whether the new office would add real value or simply be another bureaucratic layer within the IC that presidents have to penetrate. The CIA, which had institutional reasons for not wanting a DNI, lobbied (though not openly — it is the CIA, after all) against the legislation on that basis. I eventually decided to vote to create the DNI, but it was a close question for me and many others in Congress. The concerns are still relevant today. I hope Grenell at least has enough time on the job to formulate an opinion on such concerns. If he does, he will be in a good position, perhaps in a second Trump administration, to suggest changes that will make the DNI and the IC more effective. That would be yet another service that Grenell could perform for his country. |
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