We have to be able to ask questions in order to answer them.

Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free speech.

The chairs [in Congress] are part of the "Gang of Eight." They get briefed on every covert-action program and everything like that. They know where all the bodies are buried. At the same time, they get far more campaign donations than anybody else from defense contractors, from intelligence corporations, from private military companies.

I must say I'm surprised by how skeptical of the [Barack] Obama administration The Nation has been.

The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.

As for my personal politics, some people seem to think I'm some kind of archlibertarian, a hyper-conservative.

When the lights go out at a power plant sometime in the future, we're going to know that that's a consequence of deprioritizing defense for the sake of an advantage in terms of offense.