Jeff Miller: “And I appreciate the chairman's remarks, and in fact, President Bush has been working diligently, as the chairman knows…”

“And I appreciate the chairman's remarks, and in fact, President Bush has been working diligently, as the chairman knows, for months and months trying to rebuild that Intelligence Community that has been decimated so terribly. Looking for that great peace dividend that was out there and slashing the intelligence budget was a foolish thing to do, and we now see, and in fact people are telling us, that it will take 1, 2, 3, maybe 5 years, in order to rebuild that human intelligence. You do not just rely on all of the whiz-bang things that we have now and the great ways that we have to gather intelligence, but you certainly have to take the opportunity to get the human intelligence. But what bothers me even more is the fact that it appears that the information that Mr. Berger took out of that Top Secret room in that area where he should not have taken anything out of that room possibly dealt with very credible information in regards to our vulnerability at airports and seaports and what was going on in those general areas; and I think it is very coincidental, at best, that Mr. Kerry, Senator Kerry's advertisements, as he has been running for the Democratic nomination and has in fact been beating on our President time and time again, have in fact been homed in on our vulnerability at our airports and our seaports.”