Vice President Mike Pence (right) swears in retired Gen. James "Mad Dog" Mattis as defense secretary in Washington, Jan. 20, 2017. Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
David Priess, War On The Rocks: The Intel Importance of Being Pence: The Vice President’s National Security Role
The CIA briefer started her day in the late 1990s like she had before on so many other working mornings: taking a highly sensitive intelligence document from Langley into downtown Washington and hand-delivering it to the man for whom it had been personally crafted. Its top secret updates covered a wide range of issues in the wake of the Cold War’s end, ranging from emerging humanitarian crises to political change in Russia to growing evidence of environmental transformation.
This scenario sounds like the delivery of the President’s Daily Brief to President Bill Clinton. It’s not. This book of secrets, instead, was the Vice President’s Supplement, created specifically for Al Gore. Its very existence, though little known, points to the growing intelligence job of the vice president from negligible beginnings in the 1960s.
Anecdotes from the modern vice presidents’ intelligence experiences reveal the extent to which the modern vice presidency has grown into a serious national security position — and illuminates an underappreciated position Vice President-elect Mike Pence may play in the Trump administration.
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WNU Editor: The focus has been entirely on President Trump .... not Vice President Pence. But if I was to make a prediction .... I am willing to bet that the Vice President is going to play a very critical role (on national security matters) in the Trump administration.
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