Lee Hamilton
Lee Hamilton
fits
That's just not something that fits in here.
bills congress error far four glaring
It is a glaring error four years after 9/11. Still exists. Not resolved. There are bills pending in Congress but they're far from enactment,
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.
consequences
A miscall like that has a lot of consequences,
act chose
He chose not to do that. He chose to act by himself.
bush congress criticism less president remember
I do not remember a president having less criticism from Congress than Bush had in his first term.
baker both difficult raise secretary task whatever
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.
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,
congress
He hasn't got much of what he wanted. But on the other hand, Congress hasn't done much of anything this year.
centrist common hoosiers labels moderation people pride project themselves
You want to disavow labels and project centrist attitudes. Hoosiers pride themselves on being people of moderation and common sense.
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.
action carefully consider might point refusal states united
If after sanctions, if after a refusal to let inspectors in, you still don't have action, it might very well be at that point that the United States would have to consider a pre-emptive strike, ... That's something we haven't done in the past. Or at least we haven't done it very often and it would have to be carefully considered.
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.
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.