Joseph Lieberman actually said...

"this is a journey without a destination point. In other words, we are just going to have to keep getting better and better and better as time goes on."

"I would urge that this happen--that the National Intelligence Program be taken out of the Defense Department and added to the DNI's budget."

"I think the problem with the DNI construct now is that the DNI does not have adequate analytic resources to serve him in the substantive role."

"We both felt that this was a case where the balance of public interest and safety was in putting this information out, not everything, but that there had been a specific, credible, unconfirmed threat."