We can never be complacent, |
We can totally disrupt. We've had great success at this already, but this gives us obviously more focus and more clearly about exactly where to go and what to look at. |
We cannot afford to make changes blindly, or in unnecessary haste, |
We know that Chinese officials chose to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in the 1996 re-election of the Clinton administration. What we don't know is what they expected to gain from that investment, |
We need to have this surveillance, and if there's a way we can do it differently in ways that are less offensive to some people, that might be a matter worth discussing. |
We will be a fact-driven, witness-driven review inquiry, ... We will not be driven by outside pressures. |
We've got to have some patience ... It's a tough job, |
What we can learn from him, I hope -- because this is a process which he may not participate too willingly in -- is basically what operations are out there that we can defend against and forestall, |
What we do does not come close to torture, |
would send the wrong message to our junior officers about taking risks, whether it be an operation in the field or being assigned to a hot topic at headquarters. |
You just don't end up with a satellite up there that suddenly, magically gives you the kind of information you want to hear or see because you want it today. If you haven't planned for it about seven years ago, it probably isn't going to happen, |