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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I'm a former Marine, ... I serve on the Armed Services Committee. No bill that I have seen, even the one that I introduced that went even farther than this, had anything to do with doing any harm to tactical intelligence in regards to that war fighter in the field.
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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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unreasonable and largely unsupported by the available intelligence.
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I think, quite frankly, what happened is they had a leadership meeting the night before, they looked at the Scooter Libby situation, they thought the situation was right, and so they pull a stunt like this, not letting anybody know they're going to go into a secret session,
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I think ultimately you have to go right up the chain to the secretary of defense or to the civilian leadership of the military,
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It is my opinion that the administration is also awaiting the report of the independent WMD commission, part of whose job or task is to take a look at the intelligence reform bill and make some recommendations,
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I will not be surprised at any military action that would lead to the possibility that we have now finally killed Saddam Hussein,
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I think he was confused and somewhat bewildered at first, somewhat shocked at his circumstances,
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Part of that was redacted to protect the Saudis, ... there was obvious Saudi involvement.
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Terrorists select their targets and mode of attack in order to maximize the political impact of the attack. And, because terrorists seek to call attention to whatever misguided cause they are pursuing, they need to escalate their attacks making each more spectacular and more horrific than its predecessor.
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I think we ought to take it down -- take the damn thing down,
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I think we ought to raze that prison,
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I think we ought to be using all of our capabilities in terms of collecting the intelligence we need,