Mr. Shaw, prior to your being nominated, the Department of Energy indicated that the early lung screening program that I fought to establish at the gaseous diffusion plant was a bad idea and should be stopped.

I cannot see how under the doctrine of preemptive strike that any President can make this decision by himself.

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.

The DOE has opposed these important reforms.

In your view, Dr. Kissinger, why did our intelligence agencies fail so tragically? Was it because of how our agencies were supposed to work with each other on an organizational chart, or was it because enough money was not getting to the…

I do not believe that we can overstate the importance or the difficulty of the challenge before the Congress.

I have to disagree.

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…

The size of the insurgency in Iraq has been consistently underestimated, in terms of the size and the force.

Mr. Shaw, DOE has still not identified a payor for as many as half of all the claimants who may be ill from their DOE work.

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

What steps has the Department taken to ensure that all claims approved by the Department of Energy's physician panels for illnesses suffered at the Paducah plant will be paid?

I thank you. By having these hearings, you have performed a great service in terms of where we are going.

I have been regularly very disturbed when I ask questions about how come we did not know what was going on.

I do not see how CIA could attract spies.

The principal concern in that report that we are talking about is the lack of coordination and exchange of information between those who do intelligence work.

I believe that would be a major decision, and we better provide enough money for it, enough schools for it, and decide that we have to do it.

I am confident that the President has authority to set up a coordinator now.