WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- The director of the CIA says a new policy giving him more authority over human intelligence collection -- the use of spies and informants -- is in the pipeline.
Gen. Michael Hayden told United Press International that a draft policy directive was being considered by Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell.
The directive creates policy for the recruitment, vetting and use of human sources, like spies or informants, and will apply not just to the 16 intelligence agencies McConnell manages, but to the FBI and other U.S. entities that use clandestine tradecraft.
It was drafted by Hayden in his capacity as CIA director -- and manager of human intelligence for the U.S. government.
The director of national intelligence has sent the draft “out for co-ordination” to the other intelligence agencies he manages “and the bureaucracy will do what bureaucracies do,” Hayden said, after a speech at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance Tuesday.
“I know I’ll get everything I need,” he said of the new authorities in the directive, adding “maybe not everything I would like, but everything I need.”
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Shaun Waterman, UPI Homeland and National Security Editor
