More furloughed intelligence officers to return to work
October 10th, 2013
03:44 AM ET

More furloughed intelligence officers to return to work

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) will begin calling more of its furloughed employees back into the office this week despite the ongoing partial government shutdown.

70% of the intelligence community has been furloughed as a result of the shutdown, leaving the leaders of all intelligence agencies scrambling to carry out their core missions.

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper issued a statement Wednesday telling employees he had "authorized the recall of some employees who perform functions that directly support efforts to protect against imminent threats to life or property, and help provide the President with the intelligence he needs to carry out his core constitutional functions related to national security."

Typically, the president receives a daily intelligence briefing in the morning hours.

The CIA made a similar announcement earlier in the week, with CIA Director John Brennan saying in a letter to employees that "keeping our staffing at the dramatically reduced levels of the past week would pose a threat to the safety of human life and the protection of property."

Like Clapper, Brennan also cited the need to provide intelligence information to the president as a reason why more employees would be returning to work.

One U.S. intelligence official told CNN that managers at all agencies are currently "in the process of determining exactly who will be recalled under revised staffing plans" and said the process of determining who can be brought back into work "will continue over the coming days."

Clapper testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, warning Congress the damage from the shutdown would be "insidious" on the intelligence community.

"Each day that goes by, the jeopardy increases. This is a dreamland for foreign intelligence services to recruit," he said.

Since the shutdown first took effect, various U.S. intelligence services have retained the right to call back essential staff in cases where it affected national security. This allowed for management to call in specific experts if, for example, there were reports of terrorist chatter that were particularly concerning.

But as the shutdown drags on with no clear ending in sight, leaders in multiple intelligence agencies are being forced to revise their plans and are recalling a wider circle of employees.

One intelligence official summed up the current situation, saying, "In the beginning of the shutdown, only those CIA employees working imminent threats were on the job. But it's been determined that the CIA not performing its core missions for an extended period of time itself presents the risk that real threats to our national security will go undetected."

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  38. Gerald O'Hare

    They would put these creeps back to work while everyone else suffers the consequences of the government shutdown. This alone tells you where out misguided priorities lie! The C.I.A. always gets top priority along with the military so that they can continue to freeload of the rest of us. We have an over budgeted intelligence agency as well as an over budgeted military!

    October 10, 2013 at 7:08 pm | Reply
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  46. Random

    I wonder how many Americans would actually care if the gov shut down. Not shut down as it is now, where we lose work, money, parks etc but if the government shut down.

    No more congress or senate. No more dmv. No more politicians . What if the government shut down rather than destroying your livelihood while they still collect checks? Does anyone actually care if the government shuts down? NO .

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    October 10, 2013 at 4:48 am | Reply
    • Random

      The situation we are in is nearly identical functionally to an abusive relationship.

      In this analogy the people represent an abused child, the government represents some really bad parents.

      We are at the point where the child makes the horrible realization that they have done nothing wrong and their parents just dont care about them.

      The next step in this is to 'grow up' and get away from the abuse at any cost.

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      More often than not the 'right course of action' is the thing you fear most. We fear a shut down, which is why the politicians took our country hostage. It is in effect the biggest bluff in history.

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      Imagine there's no heaven
      It's easy if you try
      No hell below us
      Above us only sky
      Imagine all the people
      Living for today...

      Imagine there's no countries
      It isn't hard to do
      Nothing to kill or die for
      And no religion too.

      Imagine all the people
      Living life in peace...
      You may say I'm a dreamer
      But I'm not the only one
      I hope someday you'll join us
      And the world will be as one.

      Imagine no possessions
      I wonder if you can
      No need for greed or hunger
      A brotherhood of man

      Imagine all the people
      Imagine there's no heaven
      It's easy if you try
      No hell below us
      Above us only sky.

      Imagine all the people
      Living for today...
      Imagine there's no countries
      It isn't hard to do
      Nothing to kill or die for
      And no religion too

      Imagine all the people
      Living life in peace...
      You may say I'm a dreamer
      But I'm not the only one
      I hope someday you'll join us
      And the world will be as one.

      Imagine no possessions
      I wonder if you can
      No need for greed or hunger
      A brotherhood of man

      Imagine all the people
      Sharing all the world...
      You may say I'm a dreamer
      But I'm not the only one
      I hope someday you'll join us
      And the world will live as one
      Sharing all the world...

      You may say I'm a dreamer
      But I'm not the only one
      I hope someday you'll join us
      And the world will live as one

      GOOD LUCK!

      October 10, 2013 at 6:25 pm | Reply
  47. ShiverMeTimbers

    This guy looks like a big gorilla.

    October 10, 2013 at 4:26 am | Reply
    • AngryJew

      lol, he does look a little like one of our early ancestors. 🙂

      October 11, 2013 at 6:55 am | Reply

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