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Tom Cotton: “[The Intelligence Authorization Act] will shrink the DNI and…”

Featuring: Tom Cotton, Republican | U.S. Senate, Arkansas

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Senate Majority Leader Thune & Sen. Tom Cotton on Pulte appointment to DNI

Published | Video Starts at 00:43

We have four more weeks with Director Gabbard as the dni, and I look forward to implementing last year's Intelligence Authorization act with her to implement wide ranging reforms that [The Intelligence Authorization Act] will shrink the DNI and take it back to its original intent, to provide a mere coordinator or process role for the intelligence community. I have no observations on the matter. (00:43–00:51)

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Asserts that the Intelligence Authorization Act will reduce the DNI's role to a coordinator or process role.

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