Dan Coats: “I'm glad to hear that you are well aware of the potential problems here.”

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

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

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.