We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.

I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.

I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates.

We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.

The White House was signaling that the threat posed by Saddam Hussein was of such urgency that it had priority over the crushing of al Qaeda.

We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.

Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away.