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I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.

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.

Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.

But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.

Intelligence collection is not confined to the communications of adversaries or of the guilty. Rather, it's about gaining information otherwise unavailable that would help keep Americans safe and free.

We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.

I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.

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