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

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

I know others have talked about that here today, but when you and I had a chance to talk earlier in the last couple weeks, I mentioned one of my real concerns about China.

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.

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

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.

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.

we have to figure this out.

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.

this is not just one more technology.