Pete Sessions: “I say to Senator Lieberman, I would share your view that the President is the No. 1 customer of the intelligence that…”

“I say to Senator Lieberman, I would share your view that the President is the No. 1 customer of the intelligence that comes forward. I think he may well need a No. 1 adviser to help assimilate all of it. But let's go back now. Would it normally be that the person who walks in there and looks the President in the eye--should not that person have line, control, and supervision over the people who provided him with that intelligence? And isn't that the only way he can be held responsible for the brief and the opinions to the President, if he obtained the information from sources that are accountable to him or her? Whereas, in this case, if the NID does it, and the information is coming up through the vast CIA network around the world, as it most often would be--not always but most often would be--then, isn't that a weakness in our concept here?”