President Obama has made it clear that the United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead individuals astray to terrorism cannot be ignored.

The risk of just one terrorist with just one nuclear weapon is a risk we simply cannot afford to take.

We are a nation of laws, and we will always act within the bounds of the law.

We will use all lawful tools at our disposal, and that includes authorities under the renewed PATRIOT Act. We firmly believe that our intelligence gathering tools must enable us to collect the information we need to protect the American people.

We need to make sure that leaks of classified information, of national security secrets, needs to be rigorously pursued and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

The men and women of the CIA are a national treasure.