The U.S. intelligence community is “inadequate” when it comes to providing the president and Congress with the information they need to protect the country, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said in opening remarks at the Senate’s annual worldwide threat assessment hearing.

Cotton, chair of the Senate intelligence panel, railed against what he described a bureaucratic bloat, drift and “social engineering” in the intelligence communities distracting from their mission of gathering information on threats to the nation.

“After years of drift the intelligence community must return to its core mission,” he said.

Five of the nation’s spy chiefs, including CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, are testifying before members of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday on major threats to the United States and global stability, including potential risks from China and Iran.

Tuesday’s hearing came just one day after The Atlantic published a bombshell report, which revealed that the publication’s Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg was added to a Signal chat discussing plans to bomb Yemen.