Dan Coats: “I have found that statutory requirements, Executive Orders, directives, have added functions to the DNI...”

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.

I'm here to say the warning lights are blinking red again. Today, the digital infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack.

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.