Dan Coats: “It takes a champion, whether it is a champion like in Tennessee where the Governor had sold the ability to fix the roads…”

This is not just one more technology.

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.

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.

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