Joe Lieberman: “The Commissioners very often would say, Who is in charge? The answer more often than not was: No one. They concluded it…”

“The Commissioners very often would say, Who is in charge? The answer more often than not was: No one. They concluded it was an organization without a head. That explained why the CIA would have information and not share it with the Immigration and Naturalization Service about people they would want to keep out of the country, or the FBI would have information and not share it with the CIA. The result was we are athletes--a homelier analogy--that the American intelligence community is like a football team with a lot of very good players but no quarterback. So they are kind of doing their own thing; some of them sometimes seem to be in another stadium and we are not getting the benefit of the billions of dollars that we are investing. The Commission recommended that we put someone in charge as a national intelligence director.”