Dan Coats: “if I could just respond. The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time has expired. The question is on agreeing to amendment No. 2888.”

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.

The Earth is now changing faster than at any point in the history of our modern civilization, primarily as a result of human activities.

We currently assess that North Korea will seek to retain its WMD capabilities and is unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons and production capabilities because its leaders ultimately view nuclear weapons as critical to regime…

I would argue that ours is not working very well and it is--at the moment.