President’s Intel Advisory Board Members All Resigned
March 17th, 2009 by Steven AftergoodSecrecy News previously criticized the White House web site for failing, among other things, to provide a current roster of members of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. (“White House Web Site Off to a Slow Start,” Secrecy News, March 9.)
But it turns out that there are no current members, since the entire membership of the Board resigned at the end of the previous Administration.
A White House official told Ben Lando of Iraq Oil Report that the previous members resigned by mutual agreement during the presidential transition and that the Board is now vacant.
“It will not be a matter of months” until new PIAB members are appointed but “maybe a matter of weeks,” Iraq Oil Report quoted the official. See “Texas oilman Ray Hunt is no longer serving as a presidential adviser on intelligence issues,” Iraq Oil Report, March 17 (at bottom of page).
March 17th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Is that a common practice at the end of an administration? Or has the advisory board not been around that long?
March 19th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
It is normal practice for all members to resign at the end of an administration. NBD.