And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.

I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president. I found out years later that it did.

I was a prosecutor and an FBI agent for many, many years.

I doubt that Congress would pass on the opportunity to make sure that our children were safe from terrorists.

If five years from now we solve the access problem, but what we're hearing is all encrypted, I'll probably, if I'm still here, be talking about that in a very different way: the objective is the same. The objective is for us to get those conversations whether they're by an alligator clip or ones and zeros. Whoever they are, whatever they are, I need them.

The fraudster's greatest liability is the certainty that the fraud is too clever to be detected.

My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.