US intelligence chief warns of 'new order' of threats

The new US national intelligence director has told thousands of employees at America's spy agencies that the US government would pioneer new ways of organising itself to face “a new order of threats to national security”.

In a message to the intelligence agencies in his first day on the job, John Negroponte wrote: “We know we need to do our work differently and do it better, but the most critical element in intelligence reform resides in you, the people who will carry it out.”