Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Gentlemen, let me add my thanks for your service to our country.

With regard to these force structure changes that we have inside of Iraq today, and the new strategy we're pursuing, if we're looking at taking down that force structure in April, based upon what you know today, are we accomplishing the…

Mr. Secretary, thank you for your willingness to continue to serve.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

I have some real concerns about the leadership in Iraq and their capability of carrying out their plans.

No, I don't think so. I think it kind of confirms what he said. Because what this report says is that with the takedown of the number of Jihadists and al Qaeda members that we have taken down in Iraq, that there is a likelihood that…

Under your bill, who would brief the president?

Rather than creating this separate DNI with the CIA, FBI, DIA and every other agency still in place, why doesn't it make more sense to bring all of the intelligence community under one umbrella

As a member of the Intelligence Committee, I deal with classified documents every single day. We know better, and Sandy Berger knew better.

He's going to be grilled pretty good about what happened, how it happened and how far up the chain it looks like it went.

I believe that public-private partnerships provide great synergy between the government and industry and represent a great capability to provide extended depot maintenance for our military hardware.

We simply don't have enough airlift.