Intelligence czar?

The Central Intelligence Agency was supposed to be the, uh, central intelligence agency---all intelligence gathered by all of the various US intelligence arms was supposed to pass through the CIA so it could assess, assemble, integrate and analyze it.

I don't support the creation of yet another cabinet-level post just to ride herd over an agency whose purpose was to ride herd over other agencies.

Though I do not have a background in US intelligence matters, nor have I read in this subject widely, I have a sense of what I will and will not support regarding fixing it. I do concede that our intelligence apparatus is broken.

• Separate the operations and gathering functions of CIA (let's call them the Spooks) from the analysis and integration functions (let's call them the Wonks).
  
• Pass all intelligence from all sources through the Wonks. That includes Naval, Army, Secret Service, and domestic FBI sources, and NSA intercepts, as well as from the Spooks.
  
• Place both Spooks and Wonks under the DoD where they belong. It's what they do.
  
• Separate the domestic counterespionage and counter-terrorism functions of the FBI into their own agency under DoD, and ensure their mindset is one of intelligence rather than one of law enforcement.
  
• What's left of the FBI stays with DOJ. Remind me, what exactly is Constitutional about a Federal law enforcement agency?
  
• I don't care much for the Department of Homeland Security either. Isn't that what the DoD is for?
  
• Overhaul how information is declassified, and apply more people and better criteria to the process of declassifying state secrets. Put this function in the Wonks' agency.
  
• Rotate case officers and analysts from the using agencies through the Wonk agency, and indoctrinate them to push more of the intel together ("connecting the dots") and outward to the agencies who would exploit it.
  

For readers who are concerned that I would preserve, or enhance, a dangerous feature of the modern Hyperstate: the United States has enemies. Like it or not. Some of these enemies were once our friends. Some of our best friends were at one time bitter enemies. Things change. Even if perfectly-inoffensive model Libertarians were in charge today, and had been in charge of US policy for the last century, we'd still have enemies.

Our government would be abdicating its first responsibility if it did not take measures to identify those enemies, their intentions, and their capabilities. A peaceable government will take great care to collect such intelligence and use it responsibly. It will save more lives than it will take. Keeping the government peaceable and responsible is up to You, the Voter.