A new report from the Senate Intelligence Committee warns that U.S. intelligence agencies must reform to address threats from adversaries like Russia and China.
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The committee’s report determined that foreign intelligence entities are targeting both the public and private sectors, including the financial sector, the U.S. industrial base, academic entities, U.S. government departments, and agencies that are not part of the intelligence community. The report warned that U.S. adversaries have access to a wider variety of tools for stealing information or inflaming social and political tensions than in past years.
There's also disagreement among intelligence officials about who should lead responses to cyberattacks and campaigns trying to influence Americans — and whether those efforts should be categorized as counterintelligence, the report said. The Senate report primarily focused on NCSC, an element of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. ODNI was created in the 2004 reforms following the Sept.
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