The Office of the Director of National Intelligence does not run spies. It exists to make the agencies that do share what they find - a function created after the September 11 inquiry concluded the failure had been one of coordination rather than collection.
More than 200 personnel have left ODNI since June 1, according to Washington Post reporting [1]. The office has gone from roughly 2,000 staff to little more than half that size [1].
The timing resists explanation on efficiency grounds. The United States is in the fifth month of a war with Iran, a conflict whose central factual questions - what Iran is building, what its capabilities are, what its allies are doing - are exactly the ones that require multiple agencies reporting into a single picture.
Reorganisations of this kind are usually defended as removing duplication. What the record shows here is the scale and the date: more than 200 people, since June 1, at the office whose purpose is to keep the intelligence community from operating as separate parts [1].
