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I Have Had National Security Background, 10 Years On The Intelligence Committee, The Last Two Years As Chair.

We Need To Make A Greater Investment In Human Intelligence.

I Had Earlier Concluded That A War With Iraq Would Be A Distraction From The Successful And Expeditious Completion Of Our Aims In Afghanistan. Now I Had Come To Question Whether The White House Was Telling The Truth.

The White House Was Signaling That The Threat Posed By Saddam Hussein Was Of Such Urgency That It Had Priority Over The Crushing Of Al Qaeda.

We Ought To Recognize That We Have An Offensive Responsibility To Take The War To The Terrorists Where They Are. That Responsibility Has Waned In The Last Year As Military And Intelligence Resources Were Withdrawn From Afghanistan And Pakistan To Be Used In Iraq.