Dni Effect

ODNI Oversight and Unity of Effect In 2004, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) position was created as part of the sweeping reforms from the 9/11 commission report. The DNI gained authority to oversee and manage the entire intelligence community with both domestic and foreign intelligence. As stated above, this community includes 17 federal agencies, 6 cabinet level departments, and 7 personnel systems. Additional this amalgamated group cuts across multiple jurisdictions, includes both appointed and elected officials who have their own ideas about public safety, law enforcement, and intelligence priorities within their domains. As the overseer, the DNI lacks the teeth to really drive a cohesive intelligence strategy which is creating disunity within the intelligence community. The ODNI essentially has to manage both a domestic intelligence strategy and a separate foreign intelligence strategy each with its own separate agencies, responsibility, and …show more content…
As the number of arrests shows, domestic terrorism is not going away and as the enemy evolves and transforms into a more sophisticated terrorist, the law enforcement and intelligence communities at all levels must do so as well. Experts in the domestic terrorism field warn against the intersections where the cyber-terror, narco-traffickers and terrorist will meet. Currently, the intelligence agencies that monitor these different types of threats are disconnected and the IC is not positioned to detect an intersection among these disparate groups. This is clearly a vulnerability that exists within the framework of the domestic counter-terrorism IC; joint collaboration must continue to evolve to ensure an attack does not occur in these