Why Some In Congress Are Skeptical Of Trump's National Intelligence Pick
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🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey! |
| 0:01.1 | This is the Brausans, and we're on our way up to Washington, D.C. to renew our Swedish passports at the Swedish embassy. |
| 0:09.4 | This podcast was recorded at 11.34 a.m. on Thursday, December 12th. |
| 0:14.6 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but we will be enjoying museums and great restaurants and the pool in our nation's capital. |
| 0:24.7 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:27.6 | Hey do. |
| 0:29.1 | Hey do. |
| 0:31.2 | So cute. |
| 0:34.8 | You know, it doesn't surprise me that we have some Swedish friends of the podcast because I have met people from Sweden and they are so informed about U.S. politics. It's really pretty mind-blowing. Amazing. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Susan Davis. I cover politics. I'm Greg Myrie. I cover national security. And I'm Claudia Grisales. I cover Congress. And today, a look at former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and the challenges she faces in her path to become the next Director of National Intelligence under incoming President Donald Trump. Greg, I want to start with a very basic question on behalf of our listeners. And that's what exactly does the Director of National Intelligence |
| 1:11.5 | do? The Director of National Intelligence is part of the Office of the Director of National |
| 1:16.8 | Intelligence. It was established in 2005 very much a reaction to the 9-11 attacks in 2001 when |
| 1:23.5 | U.S. National Security agencies failed to connect the dots, didn't talk to each other in the way |
| 1:29.1 | that they should have. So now the Director of National Intelligence oversees all 18 intelligence |
| 1:35.5 | agencies, some very well known like the CIA and the FBI, others much less so like the Treasury |
| 1:42.6 | Department has an intelligence office, and that keeps |
| 1:45.0 | track of things like money laundering and drug trafficking around the world. So the Director |
| 1:50.1 | of National Intelligence and that office is sort of a traffic cop, make sure all these 18 |
| 1:55.1 | agencies work together. And Greg, for a lot of our listeners, I think they might have some |
| 1:59.6 | idea of this because you see it play out sometimes in the movies, but that it's the Office of the Director of National Intelligence that provides the president with that daily intelligence briefing. |
| 2:09.7 | Yeah, that's a really important thing that we should note. |
| 2:13.0 | So every day this office, OD and I, puts together something called the president's daily brief, |
| 2:18.5 | noting the top, say, half dozen or so national security issues that he should be dealing with. |
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