Dan Coats: “The risk of interstate conflict is higher than any time since the end of the Cold War.”

Our job is to seek the truth and tell the truth.

We can create a discipline, a way of thinking about these challenges.

One of the first things you can do--at this hearing, even--is to make a strong statement of support for professionalism in the IC and pledge that you will not tolerate politics influencing the analytical process.

Electoral legitimacy is the essential linchpin of our entire political culture.