[Operation] Rockingham was spinning reports and emphasizing reports that showed non-compliance (by Iraq with UN inspections) and quashing those which showed compliance. It was cherry-picking intelligence.

I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.

The UN stopped using Chalabi's information as a basis for conducting inspections once the tenuous nature of his sources and his dubious motivations became clear. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the mainstream US media, which give prominent coverage to sources of information that, had they not been related to Hussein's Iraq, would normally be immediately dismissed.

I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history.

When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.

I don't disagree with anything I've ever said. Why in God's name would I disagree with something I've said?

We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause.