And in the 9-11 Commission, we recommended that we create a Director of National Intelligence to break down this bureaucracy, to cut it, to reduce it, to break down the layers, to tear down the stove pipe so information could be shared.

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You may know the famous story that the president was wearing his trademark stove pipe hat and he began because he was so tall to attract fire from the Confederate forces until Holmes shouted without thinking these famous words: Get down, you fool.

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True, the back had been customised as a cedar-shingle hut, complete with a crooked stove-pipe.

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