It was a world community intelligence failure; we can't let that happen again, |
It's amazing to me, ... All the stars in the heavens were in the right places. |
Japan has chosen to ignore internationally recognized science and instead based their food safety on emotion and politics. This comes at a high price for the American beef industry. ... We're not going to stand idly by while politics and posturing drive international trade policy rather than sound science. |
Kansas producers got an early present this holiday with the long overdue decision by Japan. |
Let's do our homework first, |
manage human intelligence collection worldwide. |
Most alarmingly, after 1998 and the exit of the U.N. inspectors, the CIA had no human intelligence sources inside Iraq who were collecting against the WMD target, |
Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement. |
not needed, not necessary and, in my personal opinion, was a stunt. |
not really relevant to what we are trying to do to detain and interrogate the worst of the worst so that we can save American lives. |
Now we have this ... stunt 24 hours after their staff was informed that we were moving to closure next week, ... If that's not politics, I'm not standing here. |
Now, as to WMD, it's going to take additional time to uncover Saddam's weapons programs, not the finished product, but the program, ... This was a program designed to be hidden -- hidden by people who knew what their fate would be if they revealed it. |
on the back burner. |
Part of that was redacted to protect the Saudis, ... there was obvious Saudi involvement. |
Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real. |