Talk:Director of National Intelligence/Archive 1

Initial comments
It looks to me like this article has two title paragraphs. Does each paragraph serve a unique purpose, or can we just delete the first one, which (to me at least) seems confusing in light of the second paragraph, and seems to contain little information not already provided in the rest of the article? - Walkiped 17:59, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Go ahead and rewrite it. Some did a poor job of merging a duplicate article into this one.james_anatidae 05:39, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)

Cabinet level?
The article describes this position as being "cabinet-level", but neither the wikipedia entry for United States Cabinet, nor the whitehouse cabinet site list this position.


 * President Bush elevated this position to Cabinet level within his own administration. For it to be permanant would require an act of Congress.--72.194.82.128 01:50, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

questionable quotation-mark usage
In the sentence below, why is report in quotation marks? Usage of quotes in the sentence denotes an insincere or ironic use of reportItalic text For example, "The wayward son forgot to "report" to his stern father after a night spent drinking." Clearly, I don't think the author of this passage intends such a meaning. However, that is the meaning that is conveyed by the quotation-marks here.

"In addition, the law required the CIA Director to "report" his agency's activities to the DNI." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.121.37.208 (talk) 11:05, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Recent News
This section makes the article unbalanced and needs to be merged with other sections. First, it's not recent news anymore. Second, Wikipedia is primarily an encyclopedia, not a news publisher. --Eleassar my talk 16:50, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Inaccurate technical description
The article mentions that the ODNI site was configured to "repel all search engines" This is incorrect... a robots.txt file is a policy file that requests that search engines not index the contents of the site. If a search engine (or other entity) chooses to ignore this policy, it can indeed index such a website. For more technical details see  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.154.203.33 (talk) 02:25, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

US Intelligence planned to destroy Wikileaks
Why is this not mentioned in the article? For last few days it has been reported in MSM (see Did Uncle Sam try to kill Wikileaks?) with a 32 page pdf report. Any objections on including this? --Cr!mson K!ng (talk) 13:26, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

I have included a brief mention of the whole thing.--Cr!mson K!ng (talk) 13:45, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

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Table of Directors
Given the dates listed, Mike McConnell would've been DNI under Bush, not Obama. Someone needs to fix the table to reflect this. Blaylockjam10 (talk) 08:27, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
 * McConnell served until January 27, 2009 – 7 days into the Obama Administration. Therfore, the table is correct. Inauguration Day is January 20. Corkythe hornetfan  (ping me) 12:38, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
 * He served the bulk of his term under Bush, so the table is misleading. Blaylockjam10 (talk) 18:17, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
 * It is not misleading. It is facts. We go by the dates they've served in all federal government agency articles. Perhaps you can request for comments or take it the WP:WikiProject Politics. Corkythe hornetfan  (ping me) 23:07, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
 * The dates are accurate, but the way the rows are organized implies McConnell only served under Obama when the bulk of his term was under Bush. The dates are fine, but the table needs to be changed. Blaylockjam10 (talk) 08:37, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
 * It's fixed now. Sorry about that, I could have sworn it was correct (I might need my eyes re-checked )... that's what I get for not looking! Corkythe hornetfan  (ping me) 09:41, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I would've done that myself if I'd known how to do it. Blaylockjam10 (talk) 07:50, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Count?
This article on the Director of National Intelligence says that the United States Intelligence Community has 17 members. The article on the United States Intelligence Community says it has 16 members.2604:2000:C682:2D00:149B:6483:85F:76BF (talk) 21:53, 27 August 2017 (UTC)Christopher L. Simpson
 * How many different talk pages are you planning on asking this on? - the WOLF  child  02:42, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

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