PIAB
The President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board is "a group of independent, non-governmental experts whose job is to evaluate the quality and adequacy of American foreign intelligence efforts. By communicating with department heads, conducting onsite inspections, and accessing classified information, PIAB looks for deficiencies in the collection, analysis, and reporting of intelligence."[1]
Contents
History
In January 1956 President Dwight D. Eisenhower created the agency, originally known as the President's Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities (PBCFIA).[2] The first board under chair James Killian were:[3]
- Richard Conolly
- Jimmy Doolittle
- Benjamin Fairless
- John Hull
- Joseph P. Kennedy
- Robert Lovett
- Edward Ryerson
In May 1961, President John F. Kennedy renamed it to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB).[4] The board exists at the pleasure of the President, who can change its size and portfolio so in 1977 President Jimmy Carter abolished the PFIAB, but President Ronald Reagan re-established it later.[5]
On February 29, 2008, President George W. Bush renamed the agency to its present form.[6]
Most of the board's work is secret, but one very public investigation involved the loss of U.S. nuclear secrets to China from the Los Alamos National Laboratory during the 1990s.[7]
Intelligence Oversight Board
PIAB has a subgroup called the Intelligence Oversight Board.
PIAB Chairs
- Full article: President's Intelligence Advisory Board/Chair
- Full article: President's Intelligence Advisory Board/Chair
Membership
During the administration of President George W. Bush, the PIAB had 16 members selected from among distinguished citizens outside the government who were qualified "on the basis of achievement, experience, independence, and integrity." The members were not paid.[8]
PIAB membership is generally considered public information; for example, the Clinton Administration posted the names of the members on a PFIAB web page,[8] and the Trump Administration issued a press release announcing the nominations of new members.[9]
PFIAB Membership under George W. Bush
In August 2002, Randy Deitering, the executive director of PFIAB, confirmed the membership list released by the White House press office in October 2001:[10]
- Brent Scowcroft, the chair
- Pete Wilson, former governor of California
- Cresencio S. Arcos, Jr., AT&T executive and former US ambassador
- Jim Barksdale, former head of the internet company Netscape
- Robert Addison Day, chairman of the TWC Group, a money management firm
- Stephen Friedman, past chairman of Goldman Sachs
- Alfred Lerner, chief executive of MBNA
- Ray Lee Hunt, scion of the Texas oil fortune
- Rita Hauser, lawyer
- David E. Jeremiah, retired admiral
- Arnold Kanter, national security official in the George H. W. Bush administration and a founding member of the Scowcroft Group
- James C. Langdon, Jr., a power-lawyer in Texas
- Elisabeth Pate-Cornell, chair of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University
- John Harrison Streicker, real estate magnate
- Philip Zelikow, National Security Council staffer during the George H.W. Bush administration and later a counselor to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
PIAB Membership under Barack Obama
The entire PIAB membership that sat under the administration of George W. Bush resigned as part of an agreed-upon move in the presidential transition of Barack Obama.[11]
President Obama appointed Chuck Hagel, former United States Senator from Nebraska, and current University of Oklahoma President David Boren as PIAB co-chairs.[12]
The following other members were appointed to the board under President Obama:[13]
- Roel Campos
- Richard Danzig appointed on December 1, 2010[14]
- Lee H. Hamilton
- Rita Hauser
- Paul G. Kaminski
- Ellen Laipson, president and CEO of the Henry L. Stimson Center
- Les Lyles
- Daniel Meltzer appointed on December 1, 2010[14]
- Jami Miscik appointed December 23, 2009[15]
- Mona Sutphen appointed on September 6, 2011[16]
- Philip Zelikow appointed on September 6, 2011[16]
- Tom Wheeler appointed on April 27, 2011[17]
In May 2013, the White House dismissed 10 members of the board.[18] The four remaining members of the PIAB were:
- Richard Danzig
- Daniel Meltzer
- Jami Miscik
- Mona Sutphen
In August 2014, President Obama nominated six new members:[19]
- James S. Crown
- Scott Davis
- Jamie Dos Santos
- Julius Genachowski
- Shirley Ann Jackson
- Neal Wolin
PIAB Membership under Donald Trump
President Donald Trump named the following persons to the PIAB:[20]
- Steve Feinberg, chair
- Samantha Ravich, vice chair
- Safra Catz
- Saxby Chambliss
- Jim Donovan
- Kevin Hulbert
- Jeremy Katz
- David Robertson
In February 2019, President Trump named three additional members:[9]
- Charles E. Allen
- Daniel Hoffman
- John K. Hurley
In May 2019, President Trump named Ray Washburne as an additional member.[21][22]
PIAB Membership under Joe Biden
In May 2022, President Joe Biden named the below persons to the PIAB.[23]
In June 2022, he named Evan Bayh to the PIAB.[24]
In October 2022, he named Anne Finucane to the PIAB.[25]
In November 2022, he named Mark Angelson to the PIAB.[26]
In January 2023, he named Margaret Hamburg, Kim Cobb, and Kneeland Youngblood to the PIAB.[27]
Known members
59 of the 162 of the members already have pages here:
Member | Description |
---|---|
David Abshire | Spooky US diplomat with connections to "Iran-Contra" |
Charles E. Allen | Under Secretary for Intelligence & Analysis at the US Department of Homeland Security 2005 - 2009 |
Lew Allen | Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force. |
George Anderson | Admiral in the United States Navy and a diplomat. As the Chief of Naval Operations between 1961 and 1963, he was in charge of the US blockade of Cuba during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. |
Zoë Baird | Spookily connected US lawyer |
Howard Baker | |
William Baker | |
Evan Bayh | US lawyer, lobbyist, and politician |
David Boren | Jobs including Chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board |
Omar Bradley | |
David Bruce | spooky US diplomat |
Zbigniew Brzezinski | A central US Deep politician, Cercle, Bilderberg, ... |
Roel Campos | US business lawyer, SEC commissioner 2002-2007 |
Saxby Chambliss | |
Leo Cherne | |
Clark Clifford | |
John Connally | Corrupt Texas politician who was close to Lyndon B. Johnson. Seriously wounded while riding in John F. Kennedy's car at Dealey Plaza in Dallas. Later United States Secretary of the Treasury under Nixon. |
Arthur Culvahouse | Iran-Contra Counsel to U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Brookings Institution. Ambassador to Australia from 2019 to 2021. |
Robert Day | Bilderberg billionaire businessman. Brookings Institution.President's Intelligence Advisory Board. |
James Ellis | Retired US Navy admiral, then Lockheed Martin. In 2018 he was appointed Chairman of the User’s Advisory Group to the US Vice President’s National Space Council; the 2019 Bilderberg had "The Importance of Space" as a topic. |
Michèle Flournoy | US deep state actor |
John Foster | US Nuclear physicist who attended the first Bilderberg and two more. |
Stephen Friedman | Chairperson of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, Director of the National Economic Council, Goldman Sachs Partner since 1973 |
Julius Genachowski | |
Gordon Gray | |
Alan Greenspan | US DSO who was Chairman of the Federal Reserve 1987-2006 |
Margaret Hamburg | US physician and expert in pandemic preparedness. Board of the Council on Foreign Relations.Operation Dark Winter, Clade X, GAVI, CFR, Wellcome Trust,Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation |
Lee H. Hamilton | Having chaired some key house committees, Hamilton appears to have established himself as a safe pair of hands for handling potentially damaging information, explaining his choice as fallback vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission. |
Anthony Harrington | |
Rita Hauser | |
John Hull | Governor of the Ryukyu Islands, Chairperson of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board 1958-1961 |
William Hyland | Spoke on The Impact Of Glasnost at the 1988 Bilderberg as editor of Foreign Affairs |
Bobby Ray Inman | NSA director 1977-1981 |
Arnold Kanter | Spooky US deep state functionary. Special Assistant to President George H. W. Bush, part of Brent Scowcroft’s National Security Council staff. |
Joseph Kennedy | |
James Killian | |
Jeane Kirkpatrick | Neocon "terror expert", US Ambassador to the UN, Washington Conference on International Terrorism... |
Henry Kissinger | US deep politician, 40+ Bilderbergs, Nobel peace prize, war criminal |
Ellen Laipson | Vice Chairman of the National Intelligence Council between 1997 and 2002, later leading a number of spooky think tanks. |
Lyman Lemnitzer | The Chairman of the JCS who approved the now infamous Operation Northwoods, later made NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe; was in favor of excessive use of the nuclear arsenal to destroy the Soviet Union. |
Jami Miscik | CIA Deputy Director for Intelligence. In-Q-Tel, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the American Ditchley Foundation |
Thomas Moorer | Headed up the Moorer Commission to investigate the USS Liberty incident. He concluded that the 1967 attack was a deliberate false flag attack |
Michael Morell | 33 years in the CIA, twice acting director |
Robert Murphy | Bilderberg Steering committee |
Janet Napolitano | 3rd United States Secretary of Homeland Security |
Ross Perot | US businessman politician who withdrew from the 1992 US Presidential election after GHWB ordered him "neutralized" |
William Perry | Attended the 1996 Bilderberg as US Secretary of Defense |
Nelson Rockefeller | |
Warren Rudman | A Rockefeller Republican Senator and possible deep state functionality |
George Shultz | US Cold warrior who attended the 1984 Washington Conference on International Terrorism |
... further results |
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170120221517/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/eop/piab
- ↑ http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=106362
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170123195406/https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp89b00980r000400120002-6
- ↑ Executive Orders (1961)
- ↑ The Issue Wonk. National Policy Facts and Analysis. Issuewonk.com. Retrieved on 2013-08-16.
- ↑ Executive Orders (2008)
- ↑ Bill Getrz, "Covert board called crucial to presidents", The Washington Times, June 16, 2008, Page A1
- ↑ a b David Corn, "Who's On PFIAB?--A New Bush Secret", The Nation (blog), August 14, 2002, retrieved December 31, 2012
- ↑ a b https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/president-donald-j-trump-announces-intent-appoint-individuals-key-administration-posts-3/
- ↑ David Corn, "Who's On PFIAB-A Bush Secret...Or Not? UPDATED" The Nation (blog), August 14, 2002, retrieved March 15, 2008
- ↑ Texas oilman Ray Hunt is no longer serving as a presidential adviser on intelligence issues
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170216154554/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-meeting-with-presidents-intelligence-advisory-board-co-chairmen-a
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170216173412/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-announces-members-presidents-intelligence-advisory-board
- ↑ a b https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2010/12/01/president-obama-announces-more-key-administration-posts
- ↑ White House Press Secretary, President Obama Announces Members of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, December 23, 2009
- ↑ a b https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/09/06/president-obama-announces-more-key-administration-posts-0
- ↑ https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/04/27/president-obama-announces-more-key-administration-posts
- ↑ http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/obama-intelligence-panel-95589.html
- ↑ https://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2014/08/obama-resurrects-intel-advisory-panel/9278/
- ↑ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/trump-names-hand-picked-panel-to-supervise-investigate-intelligence-community
- ↑ https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-secretive-intelligence-advisory-board-takes-shape-security/story?id=65222244
- ↑ https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/president-donald-j-trump-announces-intent-nominate-appoint-personnel-key-administration-posts-26/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220504193130/https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/04/president-biden-announces-appointments-to-the-presidents-intelligence-advisory-board-and-the-national-science-board
- ↑ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/06/15/president-biden-announces-key-nominees-21/
- ↑ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/10/14/president-biden-announces-key-appointments-to-boards-and-commissions-11/
- ↑ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/11/22/president-biden-announces-key-appointments-to-boards-and-commissions-13/
- ↑ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/01/26/president-biden-announces-key-appointments-to-boards-and-commissions-17/
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