DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis

Later, he was the council staffer for Senator Dianne Feinstein on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, chief counsel to Feinstein, Democratic staff director of the House Select Committee on Homeland Security, senior roles at the Department of Energy, Senate Judiciary.

senior advisor to the Undersecretary for Intelligence at DHS, Office of Intelligence and Analysis.

He resigned from DHS in January of 2025.

He currently is the executive director of SteadyState, a 501c4 nonprofit.

What have you come up with to weird people out even more?

So we submitted a request back in August of 2022 to Department of Homeland Security to their Office of Intelligence and Analysis.

And that request just asked for some OSINT, you know, stuff that they were...

Open source intelligence.

If it's not useful, you've got to get rid of it.

Right.

Was, you know, the question is, what? You know, the Office of Intelligence and Analysis has an intelligence oversight office, right? They obviously have an inspector general.

And that's the other thing I want to bring up is just months before this happened back in – I forgot the actual deal.

Congressman August Pfluger, a Texas Republican, he's a friend of threat status.

He penned an op-ed this week in which he highlighted problems with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Office of Intelligence and Analysis, the INA as it's known.

arguing that, quote, a persistent lack of understanding of INA's statutory role within the intelligence community has fueled mission creep, inconsistent oversight, politicization, civil liberties concerns, high turnover, low morale and significant training gaps for personnel, and that these failures have ultimately weakened the agency and eroded public trust.

That's all basically a full quote, although I added a couple of the and in there, Ben.