From the creation of the Office of Strategic Services in 1942 to the passage of the National Security Act in 1947 and the enactment of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 1978, several pivotal decisions have laid the foundation of the U.S. Intelligence Community. In my view, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (IRTPA) ultimately brought these earlier efforts together, reshaping the intelligence community to meet the demands of a new era.