I am hopeful that the exchanges of ideas will yield in the end to a bipartisan and enthusiastically supported reform that we can send to the president for his signature.

Today, however, the fact that we don't have an independent head of all of our intelligence assets has become a significant problem.

That's correct. Now, clearly, the heads of the various agencies are going to run their own agencies.

the beauty of this is, not another layer of bureaucracy, but a strong central manager who has clout.

I think that the idea of conflicts with DOD are mostly theoretical.

Last year, I asked you, at this hearing, about the robust nuclear earth penetrator, and you told me it was just a study.

I'd like to ask you a question about the heroin--or the opium poppy production in Afghanistan.

There is no way we can lose this war militarily, and there is no way we can win it militarily.

I think we always have to apply the Geneva Convention, because, with our Nation, regardless of whether it is state or non-state, we have a certain moral imperative that we cannot escape.

I want to indicate my very deep concern about the fact that tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars have flowed from illegal heroin trade directly into the hands of terrorist organizations, like al Qaeda.

Are we protecting warlords in Afghanistan who are growing poppy or producing heroin?

A large number of detainees are innocent. They're in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I believe it would be folly and far too costly to place too much of an emphasis on missile defense.

Missile defense would have done nothing to stop 9/11.

Given the high cost and the still uncertain and untested technology, I found it surprising that President Bush has declared his intention to deploy a nation-wide missile defense this year.

I believe National Missile Defense is one of the key foreign policy and national security issues that we will face in the coming decades.

I am sure that is right. Thank you. I am sure that is right.

That is the fundamental question: Would a split improve the administration of justice and, if so, what should that split be?