§3022 Joint Intelligence Community Council

Summary

Creates a Joint Intelligence Community Council to help the Director of National Intelligence lead and coordinate the U.S. intelligence effort to protect national security. The Council is made up of the Director (who is the chair), the Secretaries of State, the Treasury, Defense, Energy, and Homeland Security, the Attorney General, and any other U.S. government officers the President names. The Council must advise the Director on needs, budgets, money management, and how well the intelligence community is doing. It must help make sure the Director’s programs, policies, and orders happen on time. The Director will call meetings as needed. Any member except the chair can send advice that disagrees with what the Director tells the President or the National Security Council; the chair must present that member’s view at the same time the chair presents the Director’s view and must set rules so doing this does not cause undue delay. Any member may also make recommendations to Congress about the intelligence community.