Dan Coats: “We as a Congress, and we as a Federal Government, ought to be doing everything possible to encourage this industry for…”

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.

We have to figure this out.

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.