DNI Tulsi Gabbard promised to speed the delivery of intelligence products to users including Congress, stressing that intelligence that "come[s] too late, or it's not providing that complete picture that [the president] needs to be able to make important calls" is "useless."
Maj. Gen. Matthew Van Wagenen said classical intelligence collection "will never go away," but "the open source piece of this in order to make military decisions, yes, it's absolutely applicable to the contemporary operating environment. It's how do we integrate the two."
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