Access to the security clearance database would disgorge even more detailed personal information, including the foreign contacts of American officials.

Once you\'re in a network, you can do a whole bunch of things to that network. It\'s just that NSA doesn\'t have the authority to do that.

My experience has been that military assessments on \'how goes the war\' are consistently more optimistic than those made by the CIA and other agencies.

As much as we might look for opportunities to keep Iraq together, we need to be prepared for the reality that it\'s not going to stay together.