Richard Willing

DNI spokesman Richard Willing said the briefings were on "topics of national security interest."

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence announced on April 3 that veteran newsman Richard Willing has joined DNI as its Director of Public Affairs.Willing, 59, covered civil and criminal justice issues, as well as intelligence and national security, for USA Today from 1997 until this January.Previously, Willing covered the auto industry and organized labor for the Washington bureau of The Detroit News.Willing's work has also appeared in the Washington Post Style section, Washingtonian magazine and the Journal of U.S. Intelligence Studies.On radio, he has reported for BBC-Ulster and Radio Canada.

Willing holds honors degrees from Yale and Ohio State universities.He began work March 31.