Jane Harman Quotes (56 Quotes)

We will be a fact-driven, witness-driven review inquiry. We will not be driven by outside pressures.

The military can set an example, ... I would suggest our president declare right now that we are transitioning our military fleet to alternative energy.

The full facts of the case, including the role of Vice President Cheney, will come out at Libby's trial. But one thing is beyond dispute Senior officials at the White House set out to discredit Ambassador Wilson, who contradicted the administration's claim that Iraq was acquiring nuclear material, ... They did this in an insidious way, by exposing the identity of his wife.

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.

The title is director, not ambassador. The skill sets are very different. The goal is not to grow a bureaucracy.

its thoroughness and accuracy can then be debated.

We know that there was a massive security failure, and despite repeated warnings by U.S. intelligence, the Saudis did not take adequate measures, ... This was wrong, and it was preventable.

couldn't get the secretary of defense to stop his opposition, which has been ongoing for months and which emboldened some of these House folks to dig in.

It's clear the Intelligence Community must do more to make diversity in hiring and retention of minority employees a high priority for all agencies.

Just the fact that the Iranian government is making a lot of noise doesn't prove their capabilities.

Today's agreement by the White House and congressional leaders means that interrogators will be given clear, unambiguous rules to follow. The fog of law is finally lifting. America's moral black eye is finally healing.

There's a NIMBY issue, ... We have to solve that before we recommend nuclear.

The NIE is a logical starting point to this investigation. It helped frame the decision to go to war.

Counterterrorism Analysis and Collection The Requirement for Imagination and Creativity.

In a post-9/11 world, diversity has become even more important.

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

Thus far, the emerging evidence in Iraq does point to WMD programs but does not point to the existence of large stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons,

I believe there are better options, and will continue to work with the DNI and the relevant congressional committees on a plan to save valuable technology and the work force that builds it,

There has not been the cooperation that there apparently has been on the Senate side,

looked like it had been the victim of attack by a weapon of mass destruction.

dangerous and highly skilled people who intend major harm to America.

The agency seems in free-fall in Washington, and that is a very, very bad omen in the middle of a war,

Maybe it's my 15 minutes of fame, maybe it's longer.

The point of it is to understand fully how we collected, analyzed and presented intelligence ... and what responsibility the intelligence community had to correct misinformation by policy-makers,

I think I am aggressive, I think I am critical when it's necessary.

This requires a digital management system of the highest caliber,

The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how vital a diverse intelligence workforce is to our national security.

It clearly is not a pretty picture. I commend the Army for taking a hard, comprehensive look at how soldiers behave towards each other.

I set a high standard for myself. I seldom meet it, but life is a journey and I'm in the middle of a fascinating one.

To make those changes effectively, he has to do them with an experienced staff, and he doesn't have one, ... Many of us worked with that staff in the House. Frankly, on both sides of the aisle in our committee, we were happy to see them go.

So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes.

As of yesterday, the report was still 'working its way' up the chain of command to senior Pentagon leaders, ... This is highly disturbing and raises questions about how seriously the administration and the White House were taking these allegations.

This decision, should it become final, would be heartbreaking for many tireless workers in El Segundo who have made a maximum effort to build a hugely complex system,

Our interrogators have become risk-averse, ... Someone interrogating a detainee is afraid they'll find himself on the front page. ... I want our interrogations to yield the best possible information. ... That's why we need a legal framework.

If the withdrawal from Gaza goes badly, obviously, that will set us back.

The failure of Democrats to articulate a compelling message and policy position on national security issues spelled doom for our party during the last election cycle,

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

In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms.

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.

My job as ranking member is about being a partner in making the committee effective.

There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.

I want to understand what went wrong, ... I want to understand what was broken in the system so we can fix it, but the goal is to fix the system.

We want to keep the bad guys out of our country, ... We want to identify them and keep them out, and we want to find them if they're already here. And we did a bad job of that on 911.

We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.

The fog of war is thick, but these acts of abuse and humiliation contradict international norms, military regulations and the very values that our military fights to defend,

I am deeply concerned about radicalization in our prisons. The radicalization may not be occurring in the physical space of the prison chapels and I strongly support the right of our prisoners to worship freely, but our prisons cannot become training grounds for terrorism.

He's a likable fellow who has helped restore some bipartisanship to the committee.

I am hardly timid.

A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.

The point is to solve problems, not point fingers.