08/24/2009
https://www.congress.gov...
"The Intelligence Community has played a critical role in keeping us safe in the decade since the September 11, 2001 attacks."
"He is going to get it right and he is going to work on what is inherently government and adhere to that."
"if arbitrary reductions in the size of the Federal workforce are put in place, we could have a situation, as we have unfortunately seen in the past, where agencies turn in an unjustified and unthought..."
"In our view, the very fact that the Secretary is allowed by statute to waive the restriction suggests that Congress did not view the function as inherently governmental per se."