There's got to be a limit to how one does that, |
There's much less coherence in the Defense Department than there could be if only some of the widely available practices in industry were applied, |
There's no question but that I don't answer things I don't want to answer, |
There's no question that the strike on that leadership headquarters was successful. We have photographs of what took place, |
There's no question you've got to have an intelligence capability, ... and the question is, how do you do it and who do you use and [with] what vetting process. So they're thinking those things through right now. |
There's one capability that is essential to dealing with all of these threats and, needless to say, that's intelligence, |
These are not tactics of war, they are crimes of war, ... Deploying human shields is not a military strategy, it's murder, a violation of the laws of armed conflict and a crime against humanity, and it will be treated as such. |
These are remarkable changes. |
These are the people who took plastic knives and box cutters and flew airplanes filled with themselves, as well as American citizens, into the World Trade Center and this building you're sitting in (the Pentagon), ... Why would one be surprised that they're determined, well-trained, clever, capable of using modern technology ... to kill people? |
These are very well-trained fighters, ... These are dead-enders. These are hard-line types. |
These events occurred on my watch, ... As secretary of defense, I am accountable for them and I take full responsibility. |
These people are committed terrorists, ... We are keeping them off the street and out of the airlines and out of nuclear power plants and out of ports ... , and it seems to me a perfectly reasonable thing to do. |
These proposals have nothing to do with that, ... These proposals have to do with organizational arrangements within the Department of Defense that put a focus on the important issues relating to space which have been spread throughout the department in a way that has made it difficult to get the right kind of focus and the right kind of emphasis. |
They are checking out their environment and determining what their opportunities and their options are, ... Our view is, we are not going to give them any. |
They are currently functioning independently of the tribes ... and they are doing things that are helpful to our side and unhelpful to the other side, |