Posted on 05/26/2020 5:08:24 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Cuts of hundreds of staff members at the White House and at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have curbed leaks and stifled anti-Trump activists within both agencies, according to senior administration officials.
Acting DNI Richard Grenell, who stepped down Tuesday, streamlined ODNI in his four months in office by reducing staff and contractor positions by as much as 400.
Mr. Grenell said other positive reforms during his brief stint included declassifying congressional testimony showing no collusion between Trump officials and Russia in 2016, and imposing rules to protect the identities of U.S. officials inadvertently captured in overseas intelligence intercepts.
The changes were aimed at shifting the focus of ODNI away from being a separate intelligence agency and toward its original mission as a coordinating body for 17 U.S. spy services.
“My philosophy going in to ODNI was that it was designed to be a coordinating body of the intelligence agencies, not a competing agency,” Mr. Grenell, who is also leaving his concurrent post as ambassador to Germany, told The Washington Times in an interview.
“Ever since my first intelligence briefing in 2001, I’ve realized, as a consumer of intelligence, that in order for [intelligence] to be useful, it must be utilized by policymakers,” he said.
Mr. Grenell commented on his eventful four-month tenure as the top intelligence adviser to the president.
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This Intel agency became really bloated. Want to know why m most of these useless Democrat hacks were there? To get there ticket punched. To bump up their Federal pay grade. Most of these idiots are lifer bureaucrats.
Good
Hopefully Grenell moves to head up some other agency that needs to be cleaned up.
I hope his next stop is State Dept.
...pity he can’t stay and complete the job - four months is not long enough to drain this particular swamp, it’s just a start.
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As I understand it, Grenell had six months. Since he didn’t complete that term, he can be reappointed.
Ratcliffe is now Acting, w/a 6 month term. He can either be confirmed, or serve out most of his Acting term and then...Grenell can be reappointed to _another_ 6 month term.
This is multi-dimensional GO.
Ratcliffe was confirmed by the Senate last Thursday.
The big question is after the election, assuming a big Republican win, which agency is Richard Grenell going to take the helm of? Likely with the same slash and burn the swamp directive he used at the ODNI.
this is what Steve Bannon wanted to do on day one, but Trump wouldn’t let him, but fired him instead ...
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