In 2004, Congress created the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to help agencies share critical information, following congressional and independent inquiries that found intelligence-sharing failures between the FBI and CIA before 9/11. Twenty-five years later, Washington is debating whether it worked — or whether the office should be reformed or scrapped altogether. ↧ ‘Not what anybody had hoped’: Calls grow to scrap intelligence ... The director of national intelligence was supposed to ensure spy agencies would never again fail to “connect the dots.” Now, critics say it’s outdated.