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Secondly, inter-agency tasking, analysis, and redundancy needs oversight and coordination. Agencies are often reluctant to share sources for fear of leaks and compromising efforts They can often be critical of each other's work. The DNI's job is to smooth over squabbling and keep people focused on a specific task. And finally, to produce a consensus analysis of data for recommendations to policymakers in both the Executive and Legislative branches.

Secondly, inter-agency tasking, analysis, and redundancy needs oversight and coordination. Agencies are often reluctant to share sources for fear of leaks and compromising efforts They can often be critical of each other's work. The DNI's job is to smooth over squabbling and keep people focused on a specific task. And finally, to produce a consensus analysis of data for recommendations to policymakers in both the Executive and Legislative branches.

The [[Central Intelligence Agency]] as its name implies, was originally intended to serve as a central collection point from the [[Pentagon]]'s [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] and [[Office of Naval Intelligence]]; the [[Department of Justice]]'s [[FBI]] involved in counter-intelligence; the [[State Department]]'s Bureau of Intelligence and Research; the independent outside agencies of the [[NSA]], the National Reconaissance Office, and a few others in the [[Treasury Department]] and elsewhere. CIA now is simply the largest of all member agencies of the IC, and their tasks are not supposed to spread above or into the activities of the other members.  

The [[Central Intelligence Agency]] as its name implies, was originally intended to serve as a central collection point from the [[Pentagon]]'s [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] and [[Office of Naval Intelligence]]; the [[Department of Justice]]'s [[FBI]] involved in counter-intelligence; the [[State Department]]'s Bureau of Intelligence and Research; the independent outside agencies of the [[NSA]], the [[National Reconaissance Office]], and a few others in the [[Treasury Department]] and elsewhere. CIA now is simply the largest of all member agencies of the IC, and their tasks are not supposed to spread above or into the activities of the other members.  

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