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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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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I think we ought to be using all of our capabilities in terms of collecting the intelligence we need,
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So far, there appears to be no evidence of intelligence personnel that directed any of the abuses, but the investigation does continue to date, and the investigation is open, ... We intend to remain very much engaged.
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At the request of my colleagues, ... I have directed staff to examine Undersecretary Bolton's use of intelligence and after careful review, the Senate Intelligence Committee continues to find no evidence of abuse. I am prepared to assist in any reasonable effort to examine the facts, but an examination of upwards of 40 names appears to be an effort to preserve the issue, not to resolve it.
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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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In the bill that was introduced in the Senate, in the bill that I introduced along with some members, we preserve the tactical intelligence part of the equation, ... And so, I hope we can change their minds.
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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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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'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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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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It was a world community intelligence failure; we can't let that happen again,
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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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And so, basically, we're making a lot of progress,