Florida Conservative

Senator Tom Cotton’s proposed overhaul of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is not simply a bureaucratic reform—it’s a strategic reversion to the pre-9/11 intelligence architecture.

History is full of wars won in the gap between perception and reality. If the price of setting Iran’s nuclear clock back a decade is a week of bad headlines for Donald Trump, that is a trade the White House—and Jerusalem—will gladly pocket.

To streamline U.S. intelligence while confronting bureaucratic resistance, technological overdependence, and constitutional concerns, a Trump administration operating through someone like Tulsi Gabbard could consider a multi-pronged, legally grounded approach.