Dan Coats: “But the question is, do you have to have the pistol at the temple of the politician in order to get it done?”

I believe the top of the list will be to reinforce the prime imperative for our Nation's Intelligence Community: to find the truth and to speak truth to power, without fear of political retribution.

I know others have talked about that here today, but when you and I had a chance to talk earlier in the last couple weeks, I mentioned one of my real concerns about China.

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

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