John A. Gentry

There are some things you can do that would be in addition.

to this.

And then let me just mention a couple of them.

These would be smaller, but I think are viable and actually are administratively relatively easy to do.

So first, if a president says to agencies, I don't like what you're doing, you're giving me bunk.

I know some of this stuff is not right.

I know there's a political...

motive behind it, I'm going to cut your funding.

So the DNI, the Director of National Intelligence, has a little bit of money reprogramming authority.

So you tell your DNI, you're the president, you tell the DNI, I want you to cut that agency's money for not doing a good job as I define it.

So a second thing you could do, this is administrative.

Second thing you could do is reissue Executive Order 12333, which, as you recall, is the...

order that initially was issued by President Reagan in 1981, which gives the responsibilities for the agencies of the EIC.

It is absolutely dreadfully boring reading.

If you've got an insomnia problem, go read Executive Order 12333.

It'll help you.

But, and this is online, actually, so you can read it.

But this has been reissued a couple of times.

So you can modify, at the executive order level, you modify missions.

So if you've got an agency that is a problem, take missions away from them.