Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.

One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they [Al Qaeda] intend.

Never break faith with the truth.

I am convinced the next major attack against the United States may well be conducted by people with Asian or African faces, not the ones that many Americans are alert to.

We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period.

You deserve better from your entire government, all of us.

It's a slam-dunk case!