As the Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, I have been briefed since 2003 on a highly classified NSA foreign collection program that targeted Al Qaeda. I believe the program is essential to US national security and that its disclosure has damaged critical intelligence capabilities.

I think I am aggressive, I think I am critical when it's necessary.

I think Democrats in Congress love Israel. Our relationship with Israel depends on a strong bipartisan relationship.

There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.

A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.

At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.

We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.