The U.S. intelligence community's information-sharing problems are nothing new, and there have been repeated attempts to correct them since 1955, when a congressional blue-ribbon panel recommended that the CIA director take charge of all U.S. intelligence efforts.
The coordination and information-sharing problems persisted, however, as the congressional 9/11 commission reported, and then-President George W. Bush's response was to create the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which is supposed to coordinate the work of all 16 intelligence agencies and oversees what's now the National Counterterrorism Center.
The 16 intelligence agencies now under the ODNI umbrella are:
Central Intelligence Agency
Defense Intelligence Agency
Department of Energy (Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence)
Department of Homeland Security (Office of Intelligence and Analysis)
Department of State (Bureau of Intelligence and Research)
Department of the Treasury (Office of Intelligence and Analysis)
Drug Enforcement Administration (Office of National Security Intelligence)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (National Security Branch)
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
National Reconnaissance Office
National Security Agency/Central Security Service
U.S. Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency
U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command
U.S. Coast Guard Intelligence and Criminal Investigations
U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence Department
U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence
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