Dan Coats: “What we got hung up on before was the reluctance of the private sector to, quote, ``trust'' that they could coordinate…”

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

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

Our job is to seek the truth and tell the truth.

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.