There's always the question whether or not he was running a secret intelligence operation that bypassed the entire intelligence community. And the law says you've got to inform the intelligence community of anything that you're doing,
Two months have now passed since the bill signing ceremony and the position of director of national intelligence remains vacant, not even a person nominated. To me, this is unacceptable.
There should be another chair before us, with an accompanying name card that reads director of national intelligence,
In other words, he's an entirely unreliable individual upon whom the White House was placing substantial intelligence trust,
I really expected that when this hearing came, the new director of national intelligence would be here to talk about threats,