Section 2 · The Common Defense
🔎Ch. 7 — Intelligence Community
IC · 13 tracked
Amend EO 12333 to empower DNI budget, cyber, and personnel authority
Proposed
Mandate’s central IC reform is amending EO 12333 to delineate cyber roles, enhance DNI National Intelligence Program budget execution authority, clarify OSINT leadership, push clearance reciprocity, and ensure conductor-like DNI authority over subordinate IC positions.
Keep DNI as sole Cabinet-level intelligence official and true IC head
Proposed
Mandate endorses Ratcliffe advice that DNI be the only Cabinet-level intelligence official, with real—not paper—authority so agencies cannot wait out or work around ODNI via OMB/appropriators.
Purge ‘woke’ identity politics from IC workforce culture
Proposed
Mandate says future IC leadership must address identity politics and social-justice advocacy replacing patriotism, colorblindness, and workplace competence across the federal intelligence enterprise.
Halt non-aligned CIA activities; break D.C. cabal by relocating elements
Proposed
Mandate tells CIA leadership to halt programs contradicting presidential agenda, insert political/aligned mid-level leaders, change promotion criteria away from social engineering, incentivize operational excellence, and permanently move parts of CIA out of Washington.
Order 60-day NSC review of covert action and sensitive activities
Proposed
Mandate directs that immediately after inauguration the President task NSC’s Senior Director for Intelligence Programs to lead an independent 60-day assessment of covert actions/sensitive activities, then demand creative realignment to presidential foreign-policy goals.
Revoke ex-officials’ clearances for uncleared media; fire/punish leakers
Proposed
Mandate urges immediate revocation of clearances for former senior intel officials who discuss work without current Director clearance, minimize public presence, fire leakers including pension penalties, and have DOJ aggressively investigate leaks while rescinding prior DOJ guidance.
Reauthorize FISA 702 while reforming traditional Title I/III processes
Proposed
Mandate supports continuing Section 702 against foreign targets while recognizing need for process fixes, and urges reforms to traditional FISA Title I/III after documented errors, without discarding the toolset.
Prohibit IC monitoring of domestic political speech as ‘extremism’
Proposed
Mandate argues IC should be prohibited from monitoring so-called domestic violent extremism framed around partisan speech, calling such approaches corrosive of First Amendment protections.
Amplify NCSC counterintelligence authorities against China espionage
Proposed
Mandate says don’t create a new CI agency but amplify NCSC authorities/roles, update the Counterintelligence Enhancement Act, and keep primary operational elements at FBI while whole-of-government rows together on China.
Consolidate IC OSINT under PDDNI-led National Open Source Committee
Proposed
Mandate criticizes disaggregated OSINT, urges avoiding duplication of private-sector tools, and recommends appointing the Principal Deputy DNI as chairman of the National Open Source Committee to prioritize and enforce accountability across 18 agencies.
Mandate SES mobility agreements and OPM buyouts for IC bloat
Proposed
Mandate recommends requiring ODNI/CIA senior officers to sign mobility agreements, studying SES changes, evaluating bloat, and using OPM voluntary separation buyouts plus maximized direct-hire/incentive authorities.
Enforce 48-hour clearance reciprocity; elevate Security Services in ODNI
Proposed
Mandate presses DNI as clearance executive agent to enforce reciprocity, fix CIA/FBI/NSA HR onboarding delays, and consider moving NCSC Security Services Directorate into ODNI with elevated status as carrot/stick.
Codify analytic integrity rules against politicized intelligence
Proposed
Mandate stresses restoring confidence in IC political neutrality after past controversies, directing use of National Security Act authorities for integrity, avoiding cooking the books, and practicing extreme public restraint.