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As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.

I have a credibility on the subject that most people don't.

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

I experienced the judgement of a lot of people - and deservedly so.

I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny.

Credibility is someone else's idea of what I should be doing.

I think I've had the opportunity to work for people because I wanted to and because I thought they were good people, and therefore everything I do, I can do with sincerity.

When words I uttered, believing them to be true, were exposed as false, I was constrained by my duties and loyalty to the President and unable to comment. But I promised reporters and the public that I would someday tell the whole story of what I knew.

I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit.