Avril Haines: “I know, Mr. President-elect, and Madam Vice President-elect, that you've selected us not to serve you, but to serve on…”

overclassification undermines the basic trust that public has in its government.

Russia's failure to rapidly seize Kyiv and overwhelm Ukrainian forces has deprived Moscow of the quick military victory that probably had originally expected.

We are expected to produce apolitical, unvarnished intelligence to the President-elect.

I would seek to try to publicize essentially a framework that helps people understand the circumstances under which we do that.