a man of character, conviction and kindness ... was a classic American intellectual -- a man with a brilliant and probing mind, yet entirely approachable and pragmatic.
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I would call upon my colleagues at the proper time to support this aviation legislation, not to say that it is perfect, not to say that some of this legislation that has risen out of this crisis is perfect, and we will have a chance to revisit and this is only the first of a wave of accountability,Jay Rockefeller
Any time the intelligence committee pursued a line of inquiry that brought us close to the role of the White House in all of this in the use of intelligence prior to the war, our efforts have been thwarted time and time again, ... The very independence of the United States Congress as a separate and coequal branch of the government has been called into question.
Jay Rockefeller
I don't think this is the proper time, ... Fox News Sunday.
Jay Rockefeller
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.
Jay Rockefeller
I think the fact that all of the lines aren't crossed and every decision isn't made about what powers the director of national intelligence has is an advantage for the director because a vacuum invites power. I think it is much more important that the director be able to come in, he or she, in order to fill that out according to their own instincts,
Jay Rockefeller
If we had prescribed in Congress each of the relationships between the agencies, I think that would have been an enormous mistake and would have rendered this person more useless. This person can exercise power, and I think that's good.
Jay Rockefeller
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