Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you all for being here today.
I found this very intriguing and informative and I appreciate the opportunity of being here today. I follow along the similar line of questioning as Mr. Lightbound and Mr. Erskine-Smith.
It seems to me the biggest problem is information in isolation. How do you connect the dots? You have one piece of the puzzle of a very large picture; how do you validate and evaluate the value of the information that you're receiving and therefore the potential threat to the country? There's also the potential abuse of that information or the misuse of the information or the relevance of the information or the false or inaccurate information that's received, and then the destruction of that information.
In an ideal world, it would be great to be able to assign the 14 agencies—or, as Mr. Evans just indicated, it could be more departments that share information—to a related oversight agency or a new one. Ideally, you could take one individual from each one of those oversight agencies to be a part of a super-agency with resources to target the bigger picture. You'd have the microcosm that is focused on those specific areas and have a larger group to look at the big picture and the overall threat. Would you agree that this would be an ideal scenario?