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How the Pentagon and CIA kept US intelligence director's role in check

By Raphaël Ramos

Published on 24.04.2025 at 04:00 GMT Reading time 6 min

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The White House spies

Part 1 Tulsi Gabbard, the US intelligence maverick

Part 2 Inside the US president's intelligence briefing

Part 3 How the Pentagon and CIA kept US intelligence director's role in check

Part 4 On Capitol Hill, hints of the future of US intelligence, from streamlining to the return of counterterrorism

The White House spies, part 3/4 – On the twentieth anniversary of the creation of the post of US Director of National Intelligence, Intelligence Online looks back over how this prestigious role has evolved. The series' third instalment explores the sometimes conflictual relations between the DNI and the heavyweights of the intelligence community.

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