Acting Director of National Intelligence by David C. Gompert issued a statement Monday morning (PDF) responds to a series of Washington Post "Top Secret" America, "Dana Priest and William M. Arkin.The accounts did not reflect the intelligence community, we know, he said.
"We recognize that we operate in an environment that limits the amount of information that we can share," he said. "Nevertheless, the fact is, men and women of the intelligence community to improve our performance, disrupted attacks, and making progress every day, untold.
"In recent years we have reformed IC in ways that have improved the quality, quantity, regularity, and speed of our support, policy, warfighters and homeland defense, and we will continue our reform efforts. We provide supervision and encouragement initiative. We are constantly working to improve the effectiveness and dismissal, while retaining the intentional overlap between agencies in order to strengthen the analysis, challenge conventional thinking and eliminate single points of failure. We remember the size of our series the contractor, but appreciate the critical flexibility and skills they bring contribution to our mission.