There should be another chair before us, with an accompanying name card that reads director of national intelligence,

These very serious charges go to the heart of whether administration officials misused intelligence by disclosing an undercover CIA agent. They also heighten concerns that the administration engaged in a pattern of misusing intelligence to make the case for going to war with Iraq.

I really expected that when this hearing came, the new director of national intelligence would be here to talk about threats,

In other words, he's an entirely unreliable individual upon whom the White House was placing substantial intelligence trust,

If they misled about the war and if they misused intelligence, then the American people need to know that the Congress will do everything in its power to make sure that it never happens again,

Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence.