Which makes the entire intelligence community even harder to manage for those folks managing it. Is that better than what we have now? Is a smooth-functioning,

Which makes the entire intelligence community even harder to manage for those folks managing it. Is that better than what we have now? Is a smooth-functioning, well-managed intelligence community in my interest? If intelligence shape policy, then perhaps. Does it? Some argue it's the other way around: policy shapes intelligence, and you get the intelligence that policy dictates (cf. Iraq). If that's the case, I could certainly do with a less efficient intelligence apparatus.