Pat Roberts
Pat Roberts
Charles Patrick "Pat" Robertsis the senior United States Senator from Kansas. A member of the Republican Party, he has served since 1997. He previously served as the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth20 April 1936
CountryUnited States of America
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Yet the DIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, knew of his background. He has a very troubled background.
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We will have hearings on that. Those hearings have yet to be held, and we'll let the chips certainly fall where they may.
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It was a world community intelligence failure; we can't let that happen again,
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It's amazing to me, ... All the stars in the heavens were in the right places.
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When we do, then the people of Iraq will no longer live in fear of his return. ... You can see it in their faces, you can hear it in their voices.
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We're facing huge demand increases for food stamps and Medicaid assistance, ... At a time when so much is undecided, I just don't expect those talks to happen.
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there is material in the report that the public should know.
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Those guilty of improperly disclosing classified information should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
We don't know where this is going to lead.
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That's not the way to run the Intelligence Committee. We have really politicized it, and I think that's most unfair.
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You don't want to have a situation where you have capability that doesn't work well with the FISA court, in terms of speed and agility and hot pursuit. So we have to solve that problem.
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This is not a subject that we ought to be talking about daily in regards to a confirmation hearing. If anything, it ought to be talked about in executive session. But it's not, it's out, and so there you have it.
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This is not the type of responsibility that can be delegated to mid-level officials, ... He should have told the president, and it appears that he failed to do so.
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Now, as to WMD, it's going to take additional time to uncover Saddam's weapons programs, not the finished product, but the program, ... This was a program designed to be hidden -- hidden by people who knew what their fate would be if they revealed it.