John A. Gentry

No president ever gave the DCI that authority.

And the other agencies said, yeah, who are you anyway?

I work for my secretary or whoever it might be.

So the 2004 Reform Act, that was a legacy of the 9-11 episode,

So Congress finally did, you know, they do reform activities every once in a while.

And they did it in 2004, so they created a new organization called, or a new entity called the DNI, the Director of National Intelligence, who would have an administrative office working for him, or the ODNI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

The ODNI and the DNI had largely coordinating responsibilities.

A lot of paperwork requirements levied from Congress and so on.

And the DNI could issue some directives that had relatively little additional power.

There was some additional power in terms of policies like DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.

And there also were, in the 2004 Reform Act, there were some other elements that would give the DNI a little bit of authority to reprogram money, for example.

which is important for bureaucrats.

So the key, the two in this early period, the two organizations that were primarily affected were the ODNI, the organization that Clapper, the DNI, could specifically influence, and CIA, which was directly under John Brennan's purview.

I looked at the other agencies and find relatively little effect at DI, at the Defense Intelligence Agency, at some of the other big ones, and nothing really in the military.

So that now has changed.

That now has changed.

A lot.

So, yeah.

So what happened?

So you have an active period of,