Lee Hamilton
Lee Hamilton
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We're getting better at this. But we still haven't proved we are safe.
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We had a marvelous meeting with the president, ... The president's comments were very candid, very forthcoming and he was interested in what we had to say.
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was sent to Iraq several times in the late 1990s for help in acquiring poisons and gases.
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I hope Indiana and a lot of other states now move to begin to focus not just on the putting together of a voter registration list but maintaining the quality year after year.
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I'm surprised, I'm disappointed and maybe even a little depressed that we did not do better four years after 9/11. It says we're still very vulnerable.
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That's an extraordinary occasion and an historic one,
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that most people would back away from. I know I would.
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The intelligence community goes around the authorizing committees because they don't have control over the money. You need a subcommittee that focuses exclusively on intelligence to have robust oversight.
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Tackling long-term challenges can do more than help us avert the kinds of crises that stack up on a National Security Advisor's desk.
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It's important to both Secretary Baker and me that we not raise expectations here. We know that whatever we do will be difficult. We really do not yet know how difficult this task will be.
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That's just not something that fits in here.
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Congress is not working hard enough at the business of legislating. They do work hard at politicking and spend a huge amount of time raising money.
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Now he's making a lot of assumptions there as far as almost instantaneous communication, and it's almost a hypothetical -- it is I guess a hypothetical question. But I heard that statement with some surprise,
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I do not find anyone today really in charge. You cannot possible argue today that the director of central intelligence is in charge.