Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “I think that answer came to us in the form of a third-party validator in the form of the New York Times on Sunday with…”

“I think that answer came to us in the form of a third-party validator in the form of the New York Times on Sunday with the headline, ``Spy Agency Says Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat.'' The national intelligence estimate, which is a conglomerate report of all of the spy agencies that operate inside the U.S. Government, and they attribute literally a more direct role to the Iraq war in fueling radicalism than that presented in either White House documents or in a report released last Wednesday by our House Intelligence Committee. Essentially, it asserts that Islamic radicalism, rather than being in retreat, has metastasized, the words in the report, and spread across the globe. We are literally in a situation now where we have our good friends on the other side of the aisle trying desperately to articulate that they are stronger on national security when every day brings more and more bad news for them in terms of where we are versus where we were 5 years ago. I have not seen a more damning assessment with a resounding ``no'' as an answer than this one.”