Throughout my career, I had the great fortune to experience firsthand as well as to witness what it means to be a CIA officer.

How you define a problem shapes how you address it.

I'm neither Republican nor Democrat. I've worked for the past five administrations.

I'm not ideological. I think sometimes when people are ideological, the world's a lot easier. Because it falls into either right or wrong, or black or white, or whatever. To me, I'm still trying to figure out a lot of things.

When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American people.

We know from the material that was recovered from the bin Laden compound that bin Laden was looking at the 10th anniversary of 9/11 as an opportunity to strike yet again at the U.S. homeland.

Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.