The responsibility of Dan Coats and, for that matter, the intelligence community, is to speak truth to power.
Leon Panetta: “The responsibility of Dan Coats and, for that matter, the intelligence community, is to speak truth to power.”
On the recordJanuary 29, 2019
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Panetta discusses the role of the intelligence community in relation to the President.
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