The brand new assessment, in response to intelligence officers, is designed to scale back duplication among the many Workplace of the Director of N
The brand new assessment, in response to intelligence officers, is designed to scale back duplication among the many Workplace of the Director of Nationwide Intelligence, the C.I.A. and different companies. It could additionally ship intelligence officers assigned to the director again to their house companies, with the view that these companies may higher allocate them.
Whereas the choice on the assessment shall be as much as Mr. Grenell, Gina Haspel, the C.I.A. director, is usually supportive, on condition that the research may ship company officers again to its headquarters in Langley, Va., in response to folks briefed on her view.
The proposals stay in early levels, although Mr. Grenell has signaled that he desires to maneuver shortly as a result of his time in workplace is proscribed.
Kashyap Patel, an aide within the director’s workplace who was transferred final month from the White Home, is concerned within the assessment, in response to folks conversant in the matter. Mr. Patel was a former aide to Consultant Devin Nunes, Republican of California, who has lengthy argued that the intelligence workplace ought to be pared again.
Mr. Patel’s arrival has been greeted skeptically within the headquarters of the director of nationwide intelligence, often known as Liberty Crossing. Some officers have mentioned that they believed Mr. Grenell and Mr. Patel had been despatched by the White Home to purge the ranks of intelligence officers disloyal to Mr. Trump.
“The White Home, the president doesn’t see the necessity for O.D.N.I.,” mentioned James R. Clapper Jr., a former director of nationwide intelligence who has been sharply essential of Mr. Trump. “So I might infer that Grenell’s marching orders had been to chop the place.”
A debate has lengthy churned about whether or not the workplace has grown too giant, however Mr. Trump’s longstanding skepticism of his intelligence companies has sown suspicion that the administration could also be conducting the assessment for partisan functions.