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For years a bipartisan group of spooks and ex-spooks has advocated overhauling the U.S.'s massive, $35 billion-a-year intelligence bureaucracy and putting it under a single, all-powerful director, a scheme that has met with ferocious bureaucratic blockades. Kay noted last week that "closed orders and secret societies, whether they be religious or governmental, are the groups that have the hardest time reforming themselves in the face of failure without outside input." But as U.S. intelligence failures pile up--notably relating to 9/11 and Iraq--it may be that the war on terrorism can't be won until the spy agencies find the courage to change themselves. --Reported by Timothy J. Burger, Massimo Calabresi, Matthew Cooper, Mark Thompson and Adam Zagorin/Washington