Fixing Intelligence and Achieving Omniscience.

摘要

With the July 2010 Senate confirmation of the fourth Director of National Intelligence (DNI) following the contentious resignation of Dennis Blair in the spring of 2010, the position and the office came under a tremendous amount of scrutiny. The DNI and the Office of the DNI (ODNI), established in 2005 in the aftermath of significant intelligence failures, including the 9/11 attacks, were designed to gain control of and provide clear direction to the Intelligence Community (IC) to improve intelligence collection and analysis. How effective has this been. This paper reviews how the ODNI came into existence; examines the effect of the DNI and the office on the Intelligence Community; examines recent changes to the office that have had, or may have, an impact on the efficacy of the Intelligence Community; discusses what the real issues are regarding Intelligence Community reform; and concludes with a look at concrete changes, such as joint all-source analysis, that could be implemented to drive the community forward and a little closer to achieving omniscience.