Without - you know, good intelligence stops plots against the homeland. Without that intelligence, we cannot effectively stop it.
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The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.
We need intelligence in this country. We need a certain toughness in this country, or we're going to end up like a lot of the other places, and we're not going to have a country left.
By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.
Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.
It's necessary to understand what real intelligence work is. It will never cease. It's absolutely essential that we have it. At its best, it is simply the left arm of healthy governmental curiosity. It brings to a strong government what it needs to know. It's the collection of information, a journalistic job, if you will, but done in secret.
We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.
Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.
For some, the very act of intelligence gathering seems illegitimate when applied to the crime of terrorism.
You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk.
You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.