Dan Coats: “Mr. Chairman, thank you.”

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

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

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.

You'll need to demonstrate to the American people that the Intelligence Community deserves their utmost confidence as a source of truth and insight.