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The White House is a strange place.

Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything.

In Democratic administrations, I visit the White House.

My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.

From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.

I was given a White House - well, you will have to ask the White House that. But I asked to attend the White House briefing because I was, you know, because I wanted to report on the activities there.

I am shocked at how much time I spend in the White House. I mean, you know, for people on the outside, the idea of going to the White House for a meeting must seem like the most important, serious, even glamorous kind of thing to do.

I actually think, as unusual as it might sound, that working in the White House is an extraordinary life.