Joe Lieberman: “I want to refer the Senator to page 14 of our bill in section 4, enumerating the powers of the national intelligence…”

“I want to refer the Senator to page 14 of our bill in section 4, enumerating the powers of the national intelligence director. We say ``establish collection and analysis requirements for the intelligence community to determine collection and analysis priorities, issue and manage collection analysis tasking, and resolve conflicts in the tasking of elements of the intelligence community within the national intelligence program, except as otherwise agreed with the Secretary of Defense pursuant to the direction of the President.'' So this is language that completely mirrors existing statute for the Director of Central Intelligence. From testimony we heard, it is fortunately working very well that the conflicts, by the testimony of at least one head of one of the agencies, just do not occur; they work it out.”