Joe Lieberman: “This whole bill has had so many moments where I felt we were legislating, we were reasoning together and coming to…”

“This whole bill has had so many moments where I felt we were legislating, we were reasoning together and coming to agreements that will make the system we want established better. This is one of them. It is totally consistent with the intention Senator Collins and I have had in putting the bill together with the intention, in my opinion, of the September 11 Commission, which is to put somebody in charge of the intelligence community where there is not someone in charge now; to not simply encourage but to the best of their ability mandate collaboration among the component agencies of the intelligence community and make sure that one result of collaboration is not so-called group-think; that there is independent, competitive analysis going on. The amendment of the Senator from Michigan, which is focused, does exactly that.”