Robert Gates: “The United States possesses capabilities to help prevent a major cyber attack, but they must be enhanced significantly.”

I think that it's still a problem for the Saudis.

we always discover . . . that we [go] too far in cutting

the only way I could get significant new or additional equipment to commanders in the field in weeks or months--not years--was to take control of the problem myself through special task forces and ad hoc processes.

The Chinese have played a lot of clips of what happened at the Capitol on January 6. And in their propaganda... have talked about how we’re in no position to advise other countries on how to govern themselves.