CNN: Intel chief rolls out new measures aimed at plugging leaks


By SB Anderson

One the changes from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper: Adding a question to a polygraph test those with access to classified information must already take to “specifically ask whether the employee has disclosed classified information to a member of the media.”

More broadly, CNN says: “Among Clapper’s recommendations, to be instituted across the 16 intelligence agencies, are an enhanced counterintelligence polygraph test for employees who have access to classified information, and the establishment of a task force of intelligence community inspectors general that will have the ability to conduct independent investigations across agencies in coordination with the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive. Clapper has also called for a review of current policies that relate to interaction with members of the media, and how that interaction must be reported.”  

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