The inability to realign intelligence community resources to combat the threat bin Laden posed is in part a direct consequence of the limited authority the D.C.I. enjoys over major portions of the intelligence community.
The specific environmental mechanisms responsible for a portion of the variance in intelligence, however, are unclear.
For more than two years Pakistan has slow-walked investigations into the 2008 siege in Mumbai, India, by a terrorist group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, that is believed to have strong links to portions of the Pakistani intelligence apparatus.
Declassified portions of the Senate intelligence committee's 2014 report found that Abu Zubaydah, severely wounded after his capture in March 2002, had cooperated with his FBI interrogators from his hospital bed.
Asked about infiltration of houses of worship and monitoring of religious services - both of which were significant components of the FBI's investigation - Ms. Berchtold directs me to the publicly available portions of the Domestic Intelligence and Operations Guidelines (DIOG).
Because, make no mistake, some portion of the information governments call "intelligence" is nothing more than an attentive reading of the news.
That may not sound too important, but it means that now that a sizable portion of the federal government — and intelligence agencies — aren't protected against an easy class of impersonated emails.
The Glatt Plagiarism Screening program, for example, relies on a method called the "Cloze procedure," originally used in the reading comprehension portion of standardized intelligence tests.
It may be that only a small portion of domestic intelligence gathering has come to light, but this week's revelations provided a chilling glimpse of what President Obama's National Security Agency has been up to.
In July, The New York Times and several other news organizations published portions of the military and intelligence reports about the war made public by WikiLeaks, garnering widespread attention.
The teams are financed with Defense Department money in the National Foreign Intelligence Program, a portion of the Pentagon budget administered by the director of central intelligence, the officials said.
