US intelligence chief warns of 'new order' of threats
The new US national intelligence director has told thousands of employees at America's spy agencies that the US government would pioneer new ways of organising itself to face “a new order of threats to national security”.
In a message to the intelligence agencies in his first day on the job, John Negroponte wrote: “We know we need to do our work differently and do it better, but the most critical element in intelligence reform resides in you, the people who will carry it out.”
Negroponte takes over a collection of 15 highly independent spy agencies which have been criticised in numerous reports since September 11 2001, for neglecting to collect information, misreading what they had and failing to communicate with each other.
Congress created his job in December to improve co-ordination among the agencies as part of the most sweeping intelligence overhaul in 50 years.
