Political Quotes

“I had a chance briefly earlier, when Chairman Dianne Feinstein of the Senate Intelligence Committee and her predecessor as Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Commerce Chairman Jay Rockefeller, were on the floor, to express my appreciation to them for the leadership they showed in bringing the Senate Intelligence Committee report through a very long ordeal and finally before the American public today. I am not going to revisit what the report says. I was on the Intelligence Committee as it was prepared. I was closely involved in its preparation. The points I would like to make here today are, first, to once again thank Chairman Rockefeller and Chairman Feinstein for persisting through this process, particularly Chairman Feinstein, who I think saw very intense resistance both within the Senate and within the CIA to this effort. They, I think, have done something that is in the very best traditions of the Senate. The second thing I will say is that in my opinion, in America, an open democracy like ours lives and dies by the truth. If we have done something wrong, if we have done something we should not have done, then we should come clean about it. That is what this report does, in excruciating, painstaking detail. Let me credential the report for a minute. When the CIA was offered a chance to challenge the facts of the report, they had it for 6 months. My understanding is they came up with one factual correction which was accepted.…”