article_snippet: CIA Director John Brennan has ordered a sweeping overhaul of The agency, aimed in part at sharpening The agency focus on cyber operations and incorporating digital innovations into traditional intelligence gathering .
article_snippet: CIA Director John Brennan announced the restructuring to CIA CIA workforce Friday.
article_snippet: CIA Director John Brennan said the move comes after nine outside experts spent three months analyzing The agency's management structure, including what deputy CIA director David Cohen called 'pain points,' organizational areas where CIA's bureaucracy does not work efficiently.
article_snippet: Briefing reporters with deputy CIA director David Cohen at CIA headquarters this week, CIA Director John Brennan said the changes are necessary to address intelligence gaps that CIA CIA is not covering.
article_snippet: CIA Director John Brennan lamented that there is often no single person CIA Director John Brennan can hold accountable for the spying mission in any given part of the world.
article_snippet: : CIA Director John Brennansaid the changes are necessary to address intelligence gaps that CIA CIA is not covering . '
article_snippet: There are a lot of areas that I would like to have better insight to, better information about, better access to,' CIA Director John Brennan said. '
article_snippet: US officials said that CIA Director John Brennan decided the agency had to increase the resources and emphasis the agency devoted to cyberspace because advanced communications technology is rapidly becoming pervasive.
article_snippet: Our ability to carry out Our responsibilities for human intelligence and national security responsibilities has become more challenging' in today's digital world, CIA Director John Brennan said. '
article_snippet: And so what Our need to do as an agency is make sure Our’re able to understand all of the aspects of that digital environment.'
article_snippet: CIA Director John Brennan avoided the term 'cyber,' a word used by the National Security Agency, the country's premier digital spying service .
article_snippet: Brennan said the undercover officer's decision 'was not a result of this,' but Brennan did not dispute that the undercover officer had opposed some of the changes. '
article_snippet: Any time we've put analysts and operators together, the result has been a more powerful product,' said John McLaughlin, a former CIA analyst who became acting director, and who advised Brennan on the restructuring.