Mr. Chairman, I think the Committee deserves an answer to that question. It is a yes or no question whether people are a...
Are either of you gentlemen--are either of you familiar with any conversations that any members of your agency have had ...
Well, as I mentioned, Mr. Chairman, we have looked at the demolish option in the past.
Are you aware of any conversations or communications that any member of the Administration has had with the President of...
That is just yes or no. Are you aware of any conversations had by any member of the Administration with the President of...
I would suggest that we now can look at the funding for the original project, which would have gone through at one of th...
Right. So the Administration's position at the time was we want to move forward with these other options, but we are not...
the status quo today is not acceptable.
I would suggest it is not just intuitively; that is according to the facts and the experts.
Your testimony today is that rebuilding at the current location would be less secure for the FBI than moving to one of t...
the current location of the FBI building is probably the worst of all the agencies in the intelligence community.
I think you can both understand why we are having major whiplash up here, given the long history of positions that both ...
clearly not as secure as the others, which is so obvious.
It is hard to understand how that is going to be met on a 6.6-acre site with 2.6 million square feet.
I am having a hard time accepting what you are saying here, so I want to be perfectly blunt about that.
And what I am suggesting to you, make it two times umpteen years, because that is how this process has unfolded.
Did you figure that into your projections, the realities of politics?
But this building will be at capacity.
