Jay Rockefeller: “If my friend will yield, I further say that the President made an enormous contribution, which was sort of generally…”

“If my friend will yield, I further say that the President made an enormous contribution, which was sort of generally overlooked--not by those of us who work in this field of intelligence-- when he made it very clear and made an executive decision that 80 percent of the budget that goes to the military, minus a few very specific tactical areas, and necessarily so, would be under the Director of National Intelligence. That was the President declaring that whoever is in that position will control the funding. Complications can arise, but the President has been clear about who is going to run this operation, and that is very important.”