The New Republic Online: The Radical: "So Cheney reverted to the intelligence-gathering method he had perfected at Halliburton: He outsourced. Even before September 11, 2001, Cheney had given his staff clear instructions to go beyond the typical information channels in the bureaucracy. 'He very, very much did not want to be trapped inside the government bubble and only see intelligence reports and State Department cables and Department of Defense memos,' an ex-staffer recounts."

I can certainly see how an agency like the CIA can get locked into an orthodoxy of information and information processes and can see how that might need some revision. But it seems clear that Cheney simply replaced the CIA's biases with his own. So, instead of having a process of filtering and questioning those biases, he commandeered the intelligence process to find the intel he wanted. I don't see that as a positive thing.