Part of our obligation is to ensure that policymakers are provided with the fullest possible picture of any matters that might affect national security.

Typically, people in the intelligence community are just going to kind of hunker down and do their job, do their mission. And I believe - I have great faith in them. I think they will continue to serve up truth to power even if the power chooses not to listen to the truth.

It's certainly not helpful when the commander in chief is a critic of the intelligence community.

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