I hope that one of the things that may come out is that Congress again take a look at itself.

We want rookie police officers who are alert enough to pick out things like that...

we must purge ourselves of the practice of political correctness when it interferes with our rational and intellectually honest analysis

I think it is a very, very good point that the reality is that we keep referring to these individuals as isolated acts, single individuals, that is true, they are isolated, single individuals, but they are also connected, it is not as if…

It is absurd to say that there isn't a connection between these things.

Shouldn't the fact that the first notice of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's possible radicalization came to us from a very uncommon source, Russian intelligence, have marked the case for special handling by our Government, and guaranteed that this…

In the aftermath of Boston, one of things he was concerned about were Attorneys General's guidelines.

It was self-evidently and publicly violent Islamist extremism that led to the attacks against us on that 9/11/01.

you can't fight an enemy you don't acknowledge

But obviously, that is one of the places where the system broke down.

Failure to recognize these common threads leads to a great deal of wasted effort.

There is a danger if you think that the enemy is al-Qaeda, and you observe that bin Laden is killed, and central al-Qaeda is on the run, you may be lured into believing that the war is over.

I think in some sense it is unfair to the overwhelming majority of Muslims in the world... to leave it unspoken.

I am really encouraged by what I take to be a totally nonpartisan approach in a committee to finding out what went wrong here.

In this case what I am agitated by for all the reasons we have talked about is why nobody was particularly looking for the name Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

I urge you to try to determine whether it was... whether lingering failures to share information... made it more difficult to prevent the Boston attack.

The enemy we face is violent Islamist extremism, not just al-Qaeda.

I said when I started this investigation that we were going to find out what happened, what went wrong and how to fix it, and I will not be satisfied until we get the answers that the American people deserve.

Unfortunately, the rhetoric perpetrated by the administration that the threat of al-Qaeda is diminishing and that its franchises are less dangerous is not the reality that the United States faces today.

I think that plan is going to be detrimental to the further security of our city.

There must be something that we have done that said, look, there is an immediacy to this.

I agree with you. Again, as you said, hindsight is always clearer.

I think you shouldn't feel any kind of guilt about going back and examining these situations where we fail with excruciating analysis, because that is the only way we will prevent these things in the future.

I have learned enough from this case... to feel very strongly that this committee, that the administration, the Department of Justice have to review the existing Attorney General guidelines for investigations by the FBI.

Ultimately, as we refine our post-9/11 counterterrorism policies, this type of failure to follow up must not continue.