Dan Coats: “And I would urge you to keep doing that.”

adversaries and strategic competitors will increasingly use cyber capabilities--including cyber espionage, attack, and influence--to seek political, economic, and military advantage over the United States and its allies and partners.

As long as I feel I can seek the truth and speak the truth, that he will stay in this job.

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.

this is not just one more technology.