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

We have to change the guidelines that we use to recruit those spies, ... In fact the CIA is required by law to change those guidelines and hasn't.

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.

its thoroughness and accuracy can then be debated.

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