Lee Hamilton
Lee Hamilton
consequences
A miscall like that has a lot of consequences,
proved
We're getting better at this. But we still haven't proved we are safe.
build enriched highly materials needed nuclear obtaining prevent terrorists
What we can do is prevent terrorists from obtaining the materials needed to build a nuclear weapon, most notably highly enriched uranium.
final intended solution
Our recommendations are good, and they're urgent, ... they are not intended to be a final solution and they need to be deliberated.
baker secretary senator
I think Senator Baker and I want to do a very careful, a very thorough, and as the secretary said, very expeditious review, and we will do that,
accept cannot charge east mean others
Just because we cannot accept what's going on in East Timor, that doesn't necessarily mean that we're the ones that charge in there. I think others can probably do that better than we -- the Australians (or) the New Zealanders, for example.
comments interested marvelous meeting
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.
depressed four maybe says
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.
acting feeling government simply time uneasy
I've had an uneasy feeling for a long time that the government simply was not acting with a sense of crisis, with a sense of urgency.
challenges crises help kinds national security stack tackling
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.
historic occasion
That's an extraordinary occasion and an historic one,
people
that most people would back away from. I know I would.
committees community control goes intelligence robust
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.
amount business congress hard huge raising spend time work
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.