ABSTRACT
The domestically oriented intelligence enterprise may be a contentious subject but it is not sacrosanct. What exists at the time of this writing (2014) does not exist because of a grand design, but rather because of the lack of one. Threats, recognized only after they had come to fruition, inspired the creation of entities that operated reactively until caught off guard by new, unanticipated threats. Politics and interagency rivalries produced “reforms,” which often introduced more dysfunction than they remedied. Therefore, considering its weak foundation, the domestically oriented intelligence enterprise is in clear need of rethinking.
