this is what the overhead architecture should look like in ten years. this is the mundane, important, but mundane issues of the intelligence community. that stuff gets lost to this operational sense that they have assumed and i think we really have to ask some very hard questions if that doesn't become a hurdle instead of the benefit. >> are you going to have hearings on this issue with sort of the outcome being that you recommend we get rid of the position, scale it back, put the director of the cia in charge as the top intelligence official, something that the directors of the cia have wanted for many years? >> yeah. and it may be a hybrid of that. i still believe that there is a coordinating function that can be incredibly valuable to the intelligence community. to be the mediator, if you will, to some of the disagreements. remember, it's huge. 17 of them, huge budgets, huge mission scopes, very talented people and sometimes you are going to bump into each other. i'm sure you both have some sense of that even in the local police department or the fbi and the dea happens. you need somebody with some stature to fix that problem.