Who Is The Boss In America's Intelligence Community

Who's The Boss? -- Pam Benson, CNN

Creating the office of the director of national intelligence in 2005 was meant to improve the management of the nation’s intelligence gathering in the wake of 9/11, but it has often led to turf wars between national intelligence directors and directors of the CIA.

Now President Barack Obama’s nomination of his trusted counterterrorism aide, John Brennan, as CIA director may leave the impression the CIA director is the top spy, even though the director of national intelligence technically would be his boss.

The problem, past directors in both posts and other experts say, is that the DNI’s role is ambiguous.

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My Comment: The answer is actually very simple .... President Obama is the boss. Within the intelligence community, it is the DNI.