Dianne Feinstein

There's a huge difference between what we're proposing and a drug czar.

I just don't think you can do both jobs.

To hear that with respect to the unmanned aerial vehicles where those who would have the best knowledge...

I spent a lot of time reading our report, you know, particularly before it was redacted.

I think we've got to mix it up big time in this new world that we're in.

I would want to have a powerful head, one head, of the agency.

We have changed our laws.

One of the things that bothered me very much as a member of this committee was seeing how, every time there was a difference of view, the CIA view prevailed against the views of the intelligence components in other agencies.

Well, my thoughts are, first of all, the intent is to give the DNI the authority.

I don't know how we can get intelligence in this new world we're in unless we have it.

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

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.

The first flaw is one of leadership structure.

Several of us on the Intelligence Committee are very troubled by what we see as fundamental, structural flaws in the community.

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

Unless administration officials, from the president on down, had information not made available to the Senate Intelligence Committee, there was clearly an exaggeration of either an imminent or a grave and growing threat.

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I have a very hard time believing that. If I look at his personal beliefs, they are extraordinary and they are way out of line with the mainstream of American thinking. They are not only outside the mainstream of American thinking, but…

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

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

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.

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

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

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.