The [directorate of operations] has probably lost hundreds of years of experience in just a few human beings,

Hundreds of years of leadership and experience has walked out the door in the last year, ... and more senior people are making critical career decisions as we speak.

But as I often say, terrorists won't check our party registration before they blow us up.

We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.

Anyone who came in when he did would have had a steep hill to climb, in part because change can be difficult,

its thoroughness and accuracy can then be debated.