Political Quotes

“I come to the floor today to talk about ``Zero Dark Thirty''--not the movie but a report on the movie. The report was supposed to tell us how the movie's producers obtained top- secret information from the Federal Government, but the report never took us there. The Department of Defense inspector general stumbled and fell and lost sight of the goal and the need for independence. People were exposed to harm, the taxpayers' money got wasted, and alleged misconduct by top officials was shielded by a policy that may have been abused. Bureaucratic bungling caused confusion, turmoil, and dissent. For certain, the whole thing was a fiasco. The ``Zero Dark Thirty'' report was driven by the hemorrhage of leaks of highly classified information by senior administration officials after the Osama bin Laden raid. It was requested by the chairman of the House oversight committee, Congressman Peter King--a very good Congressman, very good on oversight. He read a column in the New York Times which indicated that Hollywood filmmakers ``received top-level access to the most classified mission in history.'' Congressman King was concerned that those disclosures could undermine our ability to successfully conduct covert operations in the future, so in August 2011 Congressman King asked the inspectors general of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Defense to answer five simple questions.…”