President Bush will unveil an executive order today that re-maps the intelligence gathering bureaucracy. The Washington Post’s Joby Warrick reports that the change is mostly to give more power to the Director of National Intelligence, a position just created in 2005. The DNI will not only oversee all 16 intelligence agencies, but will make executive policy, like how to engage intelligence agencies in other countries.

Such heady responsibilities have traditionally fallen to the CIA director. It bears monitoring in the next administration whether Bush’s orders have led to greater clarity or heated bureaucratic resentment.-MB

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