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Second, the National Intelligence Director should manage the national

intelligence program and oversee the component agencies of the intelligence
community. (See diagram.)

· The National Intelligence Director would submit a unified budget for

national intelligence that reflects priorities chosen by the National
Security Council, an appropriate balance among the varieties of tech-
nical and human intelligence collection, and analysis. He or she would
receive an appropriation for national intelligence and apportion the
funds to the appropriate agencies, in line with that budget, and with
authority to reprogram funds among the national intelligence agen-
cies to meet any new priority (as counterterrorism was in the 1990s).
The National Intelligence Director should approve and submit nom-
inations to the president of the individuals who would lead the CIA,
DIA, FBI Intelligence Office, NSA, NGA, NRO, Information Analy-
sis and Infrastructure Protection Directorate of the Department of
Homeland Security, and other national intelligence capabilities.

· The National Intelligence Director would manage this national effort

with the help of three deputies, each of whom would also hold a key
position in one of the component agencies.

· foreign intelligence (the head of the CIA)
· defense intelligence (the under secretary of defense for intelli-

gence)

· homeland intelligence (the FBI's executive assistant director for

intelligence or the under secretary of homeland security for
information analysis and infrastructure protection)

Other agencies in the intelligence community would coordinate

their work within each of these three areas, largely staying housed in
the same departments or agencies that support them now.

Returning to the analogy of the Defense Department's organiza-

tion, these three deputies--like the leaders of the Army, Navy, Air
Force, or Marines--would have the job of acquiring the systems,
training the people, and executing the operations planned by the
national intelligence centers.

And, just as the combatant commanders also report to the secre-

tary of defense, the directors of the national intelligence centers--e.g.,
for counterproliferation, crime and narcotics, and the rest--also
would report to the National Intelligence Director.

· The Defense Department's military intelligence programs--the joint

military intelligence program (JMIP) and the tactical intelligence and
related activities program (TIARA)--would remain part of that
department's responsibility.

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