ODNI's Backpedalling from WaPo Article

Here's the excerpt from the official statement from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence

We accept that we operate in an environment that limits the amount of information we can share. However, the fact is, the men and women of the Intelligence Community have improved our operations, thwarted attacks, and are achieving untold successes every day.
In recent years, we have reformed the IC in ways that have improved the quality, quantity, regularity, and speed of our support to policymakers, warfighters, and homeland defenders, and we will continue our reform efforts. We provide oversight, while also encouraging initiative. We work constantly to reduce inefficiencies and redundancies, while preserving a degree of intentional overlap among agencies to strengthen analysis, challenge conventional thinking, and eliminate single points of failure. We are mindful of the size of our contractor ranks, but greatly value the critical flexibility and specialized skills they contribute to our mission.
The challenges that lie ahead are difficult and complex. We will continue to scrutinize our own operations, seek ways to improve and adapt, and work with Congress on its crucial oversight and reform efforts. We can always do better, and we will. And the importance of our mission and our commitment to keeping America safe will remain steadfast, whether they are reflected in the day’s news or not.

UPDATE:

Here are some more docs they're throwing around as obscuration (all PDFs):
http://www.dni.gov/content/Question_and_Answer_IC.pdf
http://www.dni.gov/content/Truth_About_Contractors.pdf
http://www.dni.gov/aboutODNI/content/ODNI_Org_Chart_2010.pdf

By: Brant