Chris Dodd: “I raise this point. I appreciate his point. Obviously, there is a disagreement between the ranking member and chairman…”

“I raise this point. I appreciate his point. Obviously, there is a disagreement between the ranking member and chairman, unfortunately, which is not a healthy thing to see coming out of the Intelligence Committee. The point I am trying to make here is, with all due respect to the chairman of the Intelligence Committee and the ranking member, it was, in fact, the very names involved which could be the very names we are talking about that have been redacted from the document that would be terribly revealing. If, for instance, there is the name--we have called him ``Mr. Smith'' to protect his identity at the CIA. If there is overwhelming evidence that Mr. Bolton tried to have ``Mr. Smith'' dismissed as an intelligence analyst, and if one of the names being sought by Mr. Bolton was Mr. Smith, it seems that ought to send red flags up to everybody. Why? It is Mr. Bolton requesting to know who Mr. Smith was and what he said, an individual he was trying to have dismissed from the CIA. We don't know whether Mr. Smith's name is on there because the name was redacted. The chairman and ranking member cannot read that name. Without knowing the name of the individual, you cannot get to the point. Obviously, the people at the State Department--it is the same thing. Without knowing the names, without the identities, I don't know how you can draw the conclusion that it wasn't relevant. That is my point.”