Mike Levin: “the 9/11 Commission, in addition to recommending a number of ways in which we could strengthen the national intelligence…”

“the 9/11 Commission, in addition to recommending a number of ways in which we could strengthen the national intelligence director and that office and produce more coordinated and helpful intelligence reports where we have all the information necessary to connect the dots and where agencies share information with each other, also reminded us on page 414 of their report that: In managing the whole community, the National Intelligence Director is still providing a service function. With the partial exception of his or her responsibilities for overseeing the NCTC [the National Counterterrorism Center] the National Intelligence Director should support the consumers of national intelligence--the president and policymaking advisers, such as secretaries of state, defense and homeland security, and the Attorney General. The consumers of intelligence are the ones who need to set forth and lay out their needs.”