Dan Coats: “Likely to fuel competition for resources, economic distress, and social discontent through 2019 and beyond.”

You will need to inspire a workforce that has unfortunately been hollowed out by years of firings, and remind them that their mission is critical--and still noble.

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.

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

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