In July, the Office of the Director for National Intelligence (ODNI) issued an important directive. The directive said that all Intelligence Community analysts “should leverage outside expertise as part of their work” to “explore ideas and alternative perspectives, gain new insights, generate new knowledge, or obtain new information.”
The directive is important because security officials and security clearance adjudicators have previously been known to suspend or revoke clearances of analysts who interacted with some outside, non-governmental groups such as those identified in the directive. In their defense, clearance-holders accused of wrong-doing because of such activity may now draw upon the authority allowed under this new directive.
Posted by The Editors on Nov 13, 2008 at 10:44PM