John D. Negroponte: “I think security and rule of law, if I was going to say what are the real priorities for this program, our program, this…”

These are not academic or philosophical points, but real world examples.

We believe that disputed claims should be dealt with peacefully and without resort to any type of coercion.

I believe that the president deserves from his director of national intelligence and from the intelligence community the unvarnished truth.

Merely treating the Convention as customary law is not good enough.