George Voinovich: “For the benefit of the committee members, by 2004, we could lose about 55 percent of our people through early retirement…”

We still believe that identifying long-term funding for all of the reform efforts would help, especially as the money becomes tighter and congressional decisionmakers such as yourself have to prioritize.

I think, General Clapper, or somebody needs to just say to them, 'Look, we have decided that if they have this kind of clearance, it ought to be acceptable in your shop.'

And you are anticipating that you are going to have more money because of the appropriations, but you have to hold that in abeyance until the appropriation is made?

the current structure falls short in comparison to a model that provides additional accountability and reasonably insulates the organization from political interference