Lee Hamilton
Lee Hamilton
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,
fits
That's just not something that fits in here.
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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,
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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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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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I do not remember a president having less criticism from Congress than Bush had in his first term.
congress
He hasn't got much of what he wanted. But on the other hand, Congress hasn't done much of anything this year.
drawing start
You go back to the drawing board, start all over again,
proved
We're getting better at this. But we still haven't proved we are safe.
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What we can do is prevent terrorists from obtaining the materials needed to build a nuclear weapon, most notably highly enriched uranium.