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 concerning 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 concerning 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 mentioned, “Russia has invested cash, personnel, simply a unprecedented quantity of effort on this space, and I believe will proceed to take action…we choose that to be targeted on making an attempt to in the end 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 to 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 lately, given President-elect Trump’s acknowledged want to “overhaul” the IC, and his nomination of former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard to succeed Haines as DNI.
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