An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

The transmission of values from one generation to the next is the single most important task of the society. ...What am I doing to shape the values of the society?

The FBI. is a massive culture. It's been a culture that served America well, and it's been focused on prosecution. But what we need in terms of terrorism is prevention.

We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed

Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose.

What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world

This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.