Dan Coats: “Our spending addiction in Washington has, at long last, led us to the point where we now face the prospect of record…”

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.

Trump doesn't know the difference between the truth and a lie.

The President needs to say that and act like it.

Woodward writes that Dan Coats continued to harbor the secret belief, one that had grown rather than lessened, although unsupported by intelligence proof that Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, had something on Trump.