President's Intelligence Advisory Board

The President's Intelligence Advisory Board is an advisory body to the Executive Office of the President of the United States. According to its self-description, it "provides advice to the President concerning the quality and adequacy of intelligence collection, of analysis and estimates, of counterintelligence, and of other intelligence activities".
The PIAB, through its Intelligence Oversight Board, also advises the president on the legality of foreign intelligence activities.

History

In January 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower created the agency, originally known as the President's Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities. The first board, under chair James Killian, included the following members:

Richard Conolly
Jimmy Doolittle
Benjamin Fairless
John Hull
Joseph P. Kennedy
Robert Lovett
Edward Ryerson

In May 1961, President John F. Kennedy renamed it to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
The board exists at the pleasure of the President, who can change its size and portfolio so in 1977 President Jimmy Carter abolished the PFIAB, but President Ronald Reagan re-established it later.
On 29 February 2008, President George W. Bush renamed the agency to President's Intelligence Advisory Board, its present form.
Most of the board's work is classified, but one public investigation involved the loss of U.S. nuclear secrets to China from the Los Alamos National Laboratory during the 1990s.

Intelligence Oversight Board

President Gerald Ford created the IOB following a 1975–76 investigation by the US Congress into domestic spying, assassination operations, and other abuses by intelligence agencies. His executive order doing so went into effect on 1 March 1976. In 1993, the IOB became a committee of the PFIAB, under of President Bill Clinton.
One of the IOB's functions is to examine violations of the laws and directives governing clandestine surveillance. The IOB received quarterly and annual reports from most US intelligence activities. Thirteen cases involving FBI actions between 2002 and 2004 were referred to the IOB for its review.
In an executive order issued on February 29, 2008, President George W. Bush terminated the IOB's authority to oversee the general counsel and inspector general of each U.S. intelligence agency, and erased the requirement that each inspector general file a report with the IOB every three months. The order also removed the IOB's authority to refer a matter to the Justice Department for a criminal investigation, and directed the IOB to notify the president of a problem only if other officials are not already "adequately" addressing that problem.
In August 2013 it was reported that the membership of the IOB had been reduced from 14 to 4 under President Barack Obama, possibly starting in early May at the beginning of the 2013 mass surveillance disclosures by Edward Snowden.

Membership

During the administration of President George W. Bush, the PIAB had 16 members selected from among distinguished citizens outside the government who were qualified "on the basis of achievement, experience, independence, and integrity." The members were not paid.
PIAB membership is generally considered public information; for example, the Clinton Administration posted the names of the members on a PFIAB web page, and the Trump Administration issued a press release announcing the nominations of new members.

George W. Bush

In August 2002, Randy Deitering, the executive director of PFIAB, confirmed the membership list released by the White House press office in October 2001:

Cresencio S. Arcos Jr., AT&T executive and former US ambassador
Jim Barksdale, former head of the internet company Netscape
Robert Addison Day, chairman of the TWC Group, a money management firm
Stephen Friedman, past chairman of Goldman Sachs
Rita Hauser, lawyer
Ray Lee Hunt, scion of the Texas oil fortune
David E. Jeremiah, retired admiral
Arnold Kanter, national security official in the George H. W. Bush administration and a founding member of the Scowcroft Group
James C. Langdon Jr., a power-lawyer in Texas
Alfred Lerner, chief executive of MBNA
Elisabeth Pate-Cornell, chair of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University
Brent Scowcroft, the chair
John Harrison Streicker, real estate magnate
Pete Wilson, former governor of California
Philip Zelikow, National Security Council staffer during the George H.W. Bush administration and later a counselor to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

In 2003, there were indications of spying on members of the board by a foreign intelligence asset.

Barack Obama

The entire PIAB membership that served under the administration of George W. Bush resigned as part of an agreed-upon move in the presidential transition of Barack Obama.
President Obama appointed Chuck Hagel, former United States Senator from Nebraska, and former University of Oklahoma President David Boren as PIAB co-chairs.
The following other members were appointed to the board under President Obama:

Roel Campos
Richard Danzig appointed on December 1, 2010
Lee H. Hamilton
Rita Hauser
Paul G. Kaminski
Ellen Laipson, president and CEO of the Henry L. Stimson Center
Les Lyles
Daniel Meltzer appointed on December 1, 2010
Jami Miscik appointed December 23, 2009
Mona Sutphen appointed on September 6, 2011
Tom Wheeler appointed on April 27, 2011
Philip Zelikow appointed on September 6, 2011

In May 2013, the White House dismissed 10 members of the board. The four remaining members of the PIAB were:

Richard Danzig
Daniel Meltzer
Jami Miscik
Mona Sutphen

In August 2014, President Obama nominated six new members:

James S. Crown
Scott Davis
Jamie Dos Santos
Julius Genachowski
Shirley Ann Jackson
Neal Wolin
Donald Trump (first administration)

President Donald Trump named the following persons to the PIAB during his first term in office:

Safra Catz
Saxby Chambliss
Jim Donovan
Steve Feinberg, chair
Kevin Hulbert
Jeremy Katz
Samantha Ravich, vice chair
David Robertson

In February 2019, President Trump named three additional members:

Charles E. Allen
Daniel Hoffman
John K. Hurley

In May 2019, President Trump named Ray Washburne as an additional member.

Joe Biden

In May 2022, President Joe Biden named the below persons to the PIAB.

In June 2022, he named Evan Bayh to the PIAB.
In October 2022, he named Anne Finucane to the PIAB.
In November 2022, he named Mark Angelson to the PIAB.
In January 2023, he named Margaret Hamburg, Kim Cobb, and Kneeland Youngblood to the PIAB.
In March 2023, he named Hamilton E. James and to the PIAB.

Donald Trump (second administration)

President Donald Trump named the following persons to the PIAB at the beginning of his second term in office on February 11, 2025:

Wayne Berman
Sander R. Gerber
Scott Glabe
Thomas Ollis Hicks, Jr.
Jeremy Katz
Amaryllis Fox Kennedy
Joshua Lobel
Katie Miller
Devin Nunes, chair
Robert C. O'Brien
Reince Priebus
Brad Wenstrup

In March 2025, he named Alex Nelson Wong, former Deputy National Security Advisor, to the PIAB.

PIAB chairs

PIAB chairpersons have been:

Officeholder	Term start	Term end	President
James Killian	January 13, 1956	March 1, 1958	Dwight Eisenhower
John Hull	March 1, 1958	January 20, 1961	Dwight Eisenhower
Vacant	January 20, 1961	May 4, 1961	John F. Kennedy
James Killian	May 4, 1961	April 23, 1963	John F. Kennedy
James Killian	May 4, 1961	April 23, 1963	John F. Kennedy Lyndon Johnson
Clark Clifford	April 23, 1963	February 29, 1968	John F. Kennedy Lyndon Johnson
Max Taylor	February 29, 1968	May 1, 1970	John F. Kennedy Lyndon Johnson
Max Taylor	February 29, 1968	May 1, 1970	Richard Nixon
George Anderson	May 1, 1970	March 11, 1976	Richard Nixon
George Anderson	May 1, 1970	March 11, 1976	Gerald Ford
Leo Cherne	March 11, 1976	May 4, 1977	Gerald Ford
Leo Cherne	March 11, 1976	May 4, 1977	Jimmy Carter
Board abolished	May 4, 1977	October 20, 1981	Jimmy Carter
Anne Armstrong	October 20, 1981	July 17, 1990	Ronald Reagan
Anne Armstrong	October 20, 1981	July 17, 1990	George H. W. Bush
John Tower	July 17, 1990	April 5, 1991	George H. W. Bush
Bobby Inman Acting	April 5, 1991	January 20, 1993	George H. W. Bush
William Crowe	January 20, 1993	May 26, 1994	Bill Clinton
Les Aspin	May 26, 1994	May 21, 1995	Bill Clinton
Warren Rudman Acting	May 21, 1995	January 16, 1996	Bill Clinton
Tom Foley	January 16, 1996	November 19, 1997	Bill Clinton
Warren Rudman Acting: 1997–1998	November 19, 1997	October 5, 2001	Bill Clinton
Warren Rudman Acting: 1997–1998	November 19, 1997	October 5, 2001	George W. Bush
Brent Scowcroft	October 5, 2001	February 25, 2005	George W. Bush
Jim Langdon	February 25, 2005	December 20, 2005	George W. Bush
Steve Friedman	December 20, 2005	October 28, 2009	George W. Bush
Steve Friedman	December 20, 2005	October 28, 2009	Barack Obama
David Boren Chuck Hagel	October 28, 2009	February 27, 2013	Barack Obama
Vacant	February 27, 2013	August 29, 2014	Barack Obama
Shirley Ann Jackson Jami Miscik	August 29, 2014	January 20, 2017	Barack Obama
Steve Feinberg	May 12, 2018	January 20, 2021	Donald Trump
Sandy Winnefeld	May 4, 2022	January 20, 2025	Joe Biden
Devin Nunes	January 20, 2025	Present	Donald Trump