§3022 Joint Intelligence Community Council

Summary

Creates a Joint Intelligence Community Council to help the Director of National Intelligence run a unified intelligence effort to protect national security. The council must include the Director of National Intelligence (who leads the council), the Secretaries of State, Treasury, Defense, Energy, Homeland Security, the Attorney General, and any other federal officers the President names. The council must advise and help the Director with setting needs, making budgets, managing money, checking how well the intelligence community is doing, and making sure programs, policies, and orders are carried out on time. The Director must call meetings when needed. Any member besides the chair can give advice that disagrees with or adds to the Director’s advice to the President or the National Security Council; the chair must present that member’s advice at the same time and set rules so it does not delay things. Any member may also send recommendations to Congress about the intelligence community.