Director of Nationwide Intelligence: With out the ODNI, ‘We May Miss the Subsequent 9/11’

SPECIAL REPORT — It wasn’t fairly an “exit interview,“ however with simply over six weeks remaining for the Biden administration, the Director of Nationwide  Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines spoke Thursday in regards to the Intelligence Neighborhood (IC) and a spread of threats that she and her colleagues will quickly flip over to the Trump administration. At an occasion hosted by the Council On Overseas Relations in Washington, Haines spoke in regards to the so-called “Axis of Authoritarians,” the heightened dangers throughout a political transition within the U.S., and the elevated push to declassify intelligence for strategic functions — because the Biden Administration did previous to Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Requested by Cipher Temporary Managing Editor Tom Nagorski about an growing variety of threats posed by Russia’s so-called hybrid warfare, Haines stated, “Russia has invested cash, personnel, simply a unprecedented quantity of effort on this space, and I feel will proceed to take action…we decide that to be centered on attempting to finally deter NATO and sure international locations from offering help and getting extra concerned within the Ukraine battle in assist of Ukraine.”

Haines is the seventh Director of Nationwide Intelligence, a place created within the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist assaults as an try and combine the work of greater than a dozen companies throughout the IC and higher “join the dots” of disparate streams of intelligence. As The Cipher Temporary reported final week, the ODNI has come underneath scrutiny not too long ago, given President-elect Trump’s acknowledged want to “overhaul” the IC, and his nomination of former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard to succeed Haines as DNI.