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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It's amazing to me, ... All the stars in the heavens were in the right places.
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In my view it would have been far worse for these pilots to turn away from victims in their vicinity in order to complete their stated mission as foreseen by commanders 100 miles away and out of communication with a growing crisis,
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The committee found no evidence that the intelligence community's mischaracterization or exaggeration of intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction capabilities was the result of politics or pressure,
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Sooner or later they're going to have to be released. They'll come out piecemeal or you can have full transparency and get it over with.
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Simply put, the round-the-clock helicopter rescue missions conducted by many services across three states, potentially saving thousands of citizens, was not a 'Hollywood role' by our military and Coast Guard personnel,
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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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Before the war, the U.S. intelligence community told the president as well as the Congress and the public that Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and if left unchecked would probably have a nuclear weapon during this decade,
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I can't really tell you some of the more specific details that would make your eyebrows even raise higher,
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Part of that was redacted to protect the Saudis, ... there was obvious Saudi involvement.
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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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Now we have this ... stunt 24 hours after their staff was informed that we were moving to closure next week, ... If that's not politics, I'm not standing here.
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I think he was confused and somewhat bewildered at first, somewhat shocked at his circumstances,
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I can tell you, however, that the committee has yet to hear from any intelligence official expressing such concerns, ... If any officials believe, however, that they have been pressured to alter their assessment, they have an obligation, and I encourage them to contact the committee.
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I'm hopeful through the debate on this nominee, and the next Supreme Court nomination, we can avoid the destructive partisanship that approached the brink of absolutism in ideology,