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If confirmed, Mr. Clapper will be the fourth person in five years to hold the post, a job that most intelligence experts believe lacks any real authority to wrestle with 16 disparate intelligence agencies and effectively combat waste and abuse.
The total number of personnel who report to the 16 disparate intelligence agencies and departments has until now remained secret, an effort by the government to mask the size of its spying operations.
To call the disparate intelligence bureaucracies a community suggests that they share a collegial spirit, but throughout their history these organizations have been brutally competitive, undermining one another and even hoarding vital information.
On August 23rd, Pat Roberts, the Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, outlined legislation to forge America's disparate intelligence agencies into a new National Intelligence Service.The service would be run by a hugely powerful director, backed by four assistant directors, each responsible for a different phase of the intelligence process.
While other lawmakers have talked of not rushing things (Capitolspeak for "Please wait until after I'm re-elected"), Senator Collins told the 9/11 commission chairman, Thomas Kean, and the vice chairman, Lee Hamilton, that she supported creating a new post that would have the actual authority to oversee the 15 disparate intelligence agencies.
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By analyzing these disparate scraps of intelligence, they were able to discover that Al Qaeda was not a hierarchical group after all but a dynamic network of cells and relationships.
But contentious confirmation hearings are likely to distract the Senate's attention from the far more important job of figuring out how to coordinate America's disparate and overlapping intelligence agencies and streamline a largely dysfunctional system of Congressional oversight.
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