Angie Craig: “I have one comment on that only because I have not seen the report, and I do not know that the minority leader has…”

“I have one comment on that only because I have not seen the report, and I do not know that the minority leader has either--we have not had a full opportunity to read it--let us proceed with caution. We have done a great deal of work since 9/11 now to bring these institutions together to coordinate intelligence. We are better off than we were pre-9/11. I am not sure that I want a Cabinet level, politicized director of intelligence for our country. I do not know that it is a good idea to politicize that. If we put them in a Cabinet level position, by the character of that position we have politicized intelligence. Intelligence should not be politicized. It ought to be factual. And we now know we have had a problem with the facts, but it wasn't just our intelligence community; it was intelligence communities around the world. Bad information makes bad information makes bad reports and can produce bad decisions.”