Big changes are coming for the U.S. intelligence community in 2025. President-elect Donald Trump’s second inauguration will bring significant reforms to America’s spies. Some are very long overdue.

As I recently explained for the Washington Examiner, our broken IC has shamed itself over the past decade. It needs a substantial overhaul, not merely cosmetic changes to how it does its secret business. Post-9/11 reforms of our spy agencies, which just passed their 20th anniversary, represented more half-measures than the real change that’s needed now. Whether Tulsi Gabbard, the former Hawaii Democrat and current MAGA stalwart whom Trump nominated to be his director of national intelligence, makes the Senate’s cut remains to be seen.

Yet whoever winds up as Trump’s spy chief has a big job in front of them. The 17-agency........

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