I believe that the local, Federal, and private-sector collaboration that took place there is really a model for how our National security apparatus should work here at home.

We are in the middle of a boondoggle of epic proportions. I would just say we need to look at starting over.

I look forward to working with you on our priorities that I know we share together.

The problem is that the Sinai is linked into this global network.

Today there is no central al-Qaeda nucleus.

the war continues, and in that sense, we cannot retreat.

President Obama repeatedly tells us that al-Qaeda is on its heels and on the run.

Killing bin Laden was an important accomplishment, but it has not put al-Qaeda on its heels or secured the homeland.

Just as we've layered security across ports and transportation systems, we need to do the same in the cyber world.

It is someone else's civil war' is a familiar refrain we are hearing often again. That is, again, a very false and dangerous narrative.

to defeat this threat we need more than kinetic force.