Dan Coats: “Providing the security is the number-one priority, but finding the funds to do so--maybe the chairman has a better idea.”

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.

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

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

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