Leon Panetta actually said...

The responsibility of Dan Coats and, for that matter, the intelligence community, is to speak truth to power.

Panetta discusses the role of the intelligence community in relation to the President.

01/29/2019

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Your resolute attention to their needs and to our security has been both invaluable and greatly appreciated.

I think that combination does make clear that they're going to be able to govern and secure themselves at that point.

I would be very careful about, you know, just shutting it down.

No, I would not, I think, at this point in time, support that.