Doing Intel Reform the wrong way

We now have this 600 page monstrosity at the President's desk. Pressured by 9-11 families, Congress acted in an expediant manner and once again failed the American people. It's too bad they didn't have the balls to tell the families to shut up.
Here's an Op-Ed piece by Dale Feathers that gives some new information I hadn't known and I don't think was talked about in the press.

Some critics feel the DNI merely duplicates many of the duties of the White House national security adviser and adds another layer of bureaucracy in the sense that some officials, like the head of the CIA, who reported to the president directly will now report to the DNI instead.

The 600-page bill never got the careful committee and subcommittee hearings it deserved, and that shows in the enactment of some programs already in existence and the duplication of others, like another counterterrorism center.

The reform bill gets the federal government into the business of driver's licenses by requiring it to set standards for the states. You don't have to be a black-helicopter paranoid to see that this is the first concrete step to a national ID card and whatever that portends for our fast-diminishing privacy.

This is why I was argueing that we should be rushing this bill through Congress. I have a very bad feeling we did more harm than good.