How can we improve the nation's spy agencies? By concentrating on the basics and building the capabilities we need to defeat today's threats. Commissions often have the opposite of their intended effect -- they stall reforms rather than facilitate them. Creating czars, rearranging organizations, and assigning new authorities are all tempting. Alas, all these proposals may seem reasonable, but none of them address the most important problem facing US intelligence. Intelligence reform ought to concentrate on creating new capabilities and removing obstacles that keep us from using our existing capabilities effectively. Bruce Berkowitz is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. This article appears in the Hoover Digest. Intelligence Reform: Less Is More | 
