| Summary/Abstract |
The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (IRTPA) created a Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and ordered him and his Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to improve intelligence analysis in the wake of two major perceived U.S. intelligence failures: al-Qaeda's attacks of 11 September 2001 (9/11) and the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) of September 2002.1 Observers’ initial assessments of the IRTPA were generally that the DNI and his office would be weak and have little effect on the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) other than adding a wasteful layer of bureaucracy.
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