SRL for [distilling]: So , following both the style he pursued as President Ford 's national security adviser and the recommendations of the Tower Commission , Gen. Scowcroft has pruned the NSC staff and tried to ensure that it-1 sticks to its assigned tasks -- namely , gathering the views of the State Department , Pentagon and intelligence community ; *trace*-1 serving as an honest broker in [*]-1 [distilling] that information for the president and then making sure presidential decisions are carried out .
ARG-2: that information | ARG-M-PNC: for the president