Dan Coats: “I cannot vote to support that if I don't know whether or not my State is going to be penalized. Does the Senator know…”

Russia and other foreign countries, including China and Iran, conducted influence activities and messaging campaigns targeted at the United States to promote their strategic interests.

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.

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

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