Presidents Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
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The Presidents Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) was established President Eisenhower in 1956, and it was originally called the "President's Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities." The board's primary purpose is to asses the quality of U.S. intelligence products. It was renamed and reorganized by President Bill Clinton on September 13, 1993, when he issued Executive Order 12863. Its members are appointed by, and report directly to the President. The board may have up to 16 members, who generally serve a two-year term, and an Executive Director.
The PFIAB works closely with the Presidents Intelligence Oversight Board, whose members are frequently drawn from the PFIAB.
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Current Members of the PFIAB
(as of December 20, 2005)
- Stephen Friedman of New York - Chairman
- James L. Barksdale of Mississippi
- Arthur B. Culvahouse of Virginia
- William O. DeWitt, Jr. of Ohio
- Admiral James O. Ellis (Ret.) of Georgia
- Donald L. Evans of Texas
- Martin Faga of Virginia
- Lee H. Hamilton of Indiana
- Ray Lee Hunt of Texas
- David E. Jeremiah of Virginia
- John L. Morrison of Minnesota
- Elizabeth Pate-Cornell of California
- Stefanie R. Osburn - Executive Director
Recent Past Members of the PFIAB
(active members as of August 2002)
- Brent Scowcroft - Chairman
- Peter Barton Wilson: former GOP Senator, Governor.
- Cresencio S. Arcos: AT&T executive and former US ambassador.
- James L. Barksdale: former head of Netscape.
- Robert Addison Day: chairman of the TWC Group, a money management firm, Bush Pioneer.
- William O. DeWitt, Jr.: Ohio businessman, Bush Pioneer, top fund-raiser for Bush's 2004 Inaugural committee, former partner with Bush in the Texas Rangers baseball team.
- Stephen Friedman: past chairman of Goldman Sachs.
- Alfred Lerner: chief executive of MBNA.
- Ray Lee Hunt: super-rich Texas oil man, Bush Pioneer, finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, Halliburton Board of Directors.
- Rita E. Hauser: "a prominent lawyer and longtime advocate of Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation."
- David E. Jeremiah: retired admiral.
- Arnold Kanter: national security official under Bush I, founding member of the Scowcroft Group.
- James Calhoun Langdon, Jr.: "a power-lawyer in Texas," Bush Pioneer, Washington lobbyist.
- Elisabeth Pate-Cornell: head of industrial engineering and engineering management at Stanford University.
- John Harrison Streicker: a "real estate magnate."
- Philip D. Zelikow: National Security Council staffer during Bush I.
- Randy Deitering - Executive Director
Historical Chairmen of the PFIAB
- Warren Rudman - former Senator
- Thomas Foley - former Speaker of the House
- Les Aspin - former Defense Secretary
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