Senator says intelligence czar needs clout

"The intelligence community does not need a feckless czar with fine surroundings and little authority," said William Webster, who led the CIA during the Reagan administration and first Bush administration. and is also a former director of the FBI. "That is the wrong way to go." He testified that "the designated leader must be clearly and unambiguously empowered to act and to decide on issues of great importance to the success of the intelligence community."