Robert C. Byrd: “It is not asking too much of the American people to have their representatives in Congress require the agency heads to…”

Doesn't this send a signal to the Iraqi people and to the American people that the United States intends to have a large permanent presence there?

I thank you for holding these hearings on the 9/11 Commission's recommendations for intelligence reform.

So as I understand your response, you do not think that the intelligence community would have come to any different conclusion about Iraq's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction if the 9/11 Commission's recommendation for intelligence…

Yet, there appears to be a growing drum beat of opinion that Congress has no choice but to undertake a complete overhaul of intelligence in the few weeks remaining in the session.