The veto is "somewhat of a setback," Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, acknowledged Wednesday during a hearing in Congress.
Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, deputy undersecretary for intelligence, acknowledged that Rumsfeld intends to direct some missions previously undertaken by the CIA.
A 2008 report by the director of national intelligence acknowledged, "The definitions of 'national security' and what constitutes 'intelligence' — and thus what must be classified — are unclear".
Kandahar's police chief, military commander and chief of military intelligence acknowledged that they had not been informed of it either before or immediately afterwards.
"The president is pleased that the director of central intelligence acknowledged what needed to be acknowledged," said Ari Fleischer, the White House spokesman.
Mr. Levey, under secretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, acknowledged that his department had been challenged trying to keep up with Irisl.
In response to the report, Dennis C. Blair, the director of national intelligence, acknowledged in a statement that "institutional and technological barriers remain that prevent seamless sharing of information" between agencies and analysts.
In a speech at Georgetown University last month, George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence, acknowledged for the first time that intelligence agencies might have been mistaken about whether Iraq possessed illicit weapons.
George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence, acknowledged for the first time that American spy agencies may have overestimated Iraq's illicit weapons abilities, in part because of a failure to penetrate the inner workings of the Iraqi government.
− Only a few months ago US intelligence acknowledged that its claim that Iran was developing nuclear weapons was in error.
In an interview on NBC, former director of national intelligence James Clapper acknowledges that he had no knowledge of evidence proving that Russia and the Trump campaign colluded during the course of the campaign.
