https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avril_Haines

https://www.cnas.org/people/avril-haines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_National_Intelligence

''Avril Danica Haines is an American lawyer and senior government official who currently serves as the Director of National Intelligence in the Biden administration. ''She is the first woman to serve in this role. Wikipedia

Born: August 27, 1969 (age 52 years), New York, NY

Nationality: American

Spouse: David Davighi

Party: Democratic Party

''Previous office: National Security Advisor of the United States (2015–2017)''

Parents: Thomas H. Haines, Adrienne Rappaport

Education: Georgetown University (1998–2001),

Avril Haines is a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University, Deputy Director of Columbia World Projects, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a Senior Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

She additionally serves as a Member of the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service.

Avril serves on a number of boards and advisory groups, including the Nuclear Threat Initiative’s Bio Advisory Group, the Board of Trustees for the Vodafone Foundation, and the Refugees International Policy Advisory Council.

Prior to joining Columbia University, Avril served as Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama.

She chaired the Deputies Committee, the administration’s principal forum for formulating national security and foreign policy.

''Before that, she served as the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. ''

Avril also held a number of senior legal positions in the government, including Legal Adviser to the National Security Council.

Avril received her bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of Chicago and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center.

The director of national intelligence (DNI) is a cabinet-level United States government official, required by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to serve as head of the United States Intelligence Community and to direct and oversee the National Intelligence Program (NIP). The DNI also serves, upon invitation, as an advisor to the president of the United States and the executive offices of the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council about intelligence matters related to national security. The DNI produces the President's Daily Brief (PDB), a top-secret document including intelligence from all the Intelligence Community agencies, given each morning to the president.[1]

The director of national intelligence (DNI) is a cabinet-level United States government official, required by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to serve as head of the United States Intelligence Community and to direct and oversee the National Intelligence Program (NIP).

The DNI also serves, upon invitation, as an advisor to the president of the United States and the executive offices of the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council about intelligence matters related to national security.

The DNI produces the President's Daily Brief (PDB), a top-secret document including intelligence from all the Intelligence Community agencies, given each morning to the president.[1]

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Haines was born in New York City on August 27, 1969,[2] to Adrian Rappin (née Adrienne Rappaport) and Thomas H. Haines. She grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.[3] The story of her early life appears in her father's autobiography with Mindy Lewis, A Curious Life: From Rebel Orphan to Innovative Scientist.[4][5] Her mother was a painter. ''Haines is Jewish.''

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https://breakingdefense.com/2021/09/afghanistan-has-been-gut-wrenching-deeply-personal-for-ic-dni/

WASHINGTON: The events that played out in Afghanistan in recent months have been “gut-wrenching” and “deeply personal” for the Intelligence Community, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told an audience of government and industry officials today.

The comments come amid widespread public debate over the Biden administration’s decisions about the US withdrawal from Afghanistan — and how some of those decisions were made. The episode has spurred questions about whether the chaos and bloodshed surrounding the withdrawal resulted in a failure of intelligence or operational planning or both.

Speaking to the press on Aug. 19, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said he had seen no intelligence that predicted what unfolded. “There was nothing that I or anyone else saw that indicated a collapse of this [Afghan] army or this government in 11 days,” Milley said.

Haines did not specifically address questions about intelligence gathering leading up to or during the withdrawal. But she did hit on another thorny issue: The trouble the US is expected to have in gathering intelligence now that so many US officials, including intelligence officers, have pulled out and the Kabul embassy has been shuttered.

“There’s no question that as you pull out… our intelligence collection is diminished,” Haines said during opening remarks at the 2021 Intelligence & National Security Summit organized by the Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association (AFCEA) and the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA). “In Afghanistan, we will want to monitor any reconstitution of terrorist groups.”

But Haines said the IC currently views places like Yemen, Syria, and Iraq with greater concern than Afghanistan, while adding that, globally, “the terrorist threat has diminished over time.”

She also said there are still potential threats from those “inspired by the ideology, including in the homeland” and referred to domestic terrorist threats as a “potpourri of instigators.”