A long row of windows runs along the seventh floor of the Central Intelligence Agency's headquarters in Langley, Va. Some belong to the office of the director of Central Intelligence (the DCI) and some to the deputy director of operations (the DDO). In the anxious days after 9/11, James Pavitt, the DDO at the time, put a large sign in his window. It read DCI and was accompanied by an arrow—pointing straight down the row of windows to the director's office.
