Lee Hamilton: “The situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating.”

I think what the Chairman said in his opening statement, and I think several of the witnesses mentioned, for 10 years now after 9/11, the American people have moved on to all kinds of other interests and focuses, and so there is a kind of…

I think the 1982 act makes it clear with this polluter-pays concept behind it, that that is to be the funding mechanism to ensure that all costs of disposing of commercial fuel will be paid.

Congress and the President must enact a law, a comprehensive approach for how to handle these detainees that is grounded in the principles of fairness, due process, and protecting the American people.

The only really effective independent oversight of the intelligence community can come from the Congress.