One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community - especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff.

TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.

It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.

I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to.

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.

The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored.

We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.