[That attitude seemed only to feed the commission's growing appetite for reform.] We've been struck, ... by a real difference between our interaction with the FBI and our interaction with the agency. The bureau ... has fundamentally admitted they're an agency that is deeply dysfunctional and broken ... whereas the attitude we kind of get from the CIA is ... 'Hey, you know, we're the CIA,' ... kind of a smugness and arrogance toward deep reform. |
everything we come out with, one side or the other seizes on to make a political point. |
I think that it is in their interest to meet with us. |
It is very troubling, but not surprising. |
It's time for an entirely new system, |
None of it is rocket science. None of it is in the too-hard category. We all believe it is possible to get all of these things achieved. |
None of this is rocket science. None of it is in the 'too hard' category. |
Now he's got to show who's in charge. And there's no doubt he can pass this. He can get it passed if he chooses to use his political capital and to hold accountable any members that obstruct this passage. |
Our recommendations are not a Chinese menu, ... They are a whole system. If all of the important elements are not adopted, it makes it very difficult for the others to succeed. |
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. |
puts in concrete a severely dysfunctional system. |
That era is over, |
There is a deep fundamental dysfunction in the way we gather intelligence and provide information to the decision-makers. |
There is a deep fundamental dysfunction in the way we gather intelligence... |
There is a train coming down the track. There are going to be very real changes made. |