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Jim Ramstad

Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.

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Jim Ramstad is saying that different intelligence agencies are not working together effectively and are not sharing information well. To fix this, he believes there should be a single leader and a dedicated center focused on coordinating intelligence and counterterrorism efforts.

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