Wasn't CIA originally started to provide a single point of consolidation for all national intelligence?

The bureaucracy (CIA) we had didn't work, so we added a level of bureaucracy(DNI), resulting in them inconflict over roles & responsibilities. Go figure.

Better to have fired someone (or multiple someones) for the 9-11 failures, and to removed some bureaucratic bull$hit, than to have created a new level.

Not that it is any different than what we do in the military every day.