Question 1
Who serves on the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
◦ the cabinet secretaries
◦ the commanding officers of each of the armed services
◦ the president's foreign policy advisers
◦ the secretary of defense, the secretary of homeland security, and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Question 2
Why did Congress enact a law that provided for a director of national intelligence?
◦ to help the director of the Central Intelligence Agency combat the growing threat posed by weapons of mass destruction
◦ to better coordinate the large number of people working in diverse intelligence agencies
◦ to decentralize authority within the intelligence community to prevent competition between agencies
◦ because the previous organizational structure of the intelligence community encouraged the various agencies to do too much of their work collaboratively, which led to groupthink
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