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

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

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

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

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

We can't afford that any more.

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

I think whomever it is, even if you don't pass this, a new DCI will be appointed.

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.

We have changed our laws.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

We can't be hypocrites. We can't go out there and say one thing and do another, and debase ourselves and debase our own people.

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

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

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.