grave damage to national security interests.

Yes, national security, that's all fine. But there's over 11 million here now, and they are not terrorists, so what do we do with them? I think we have to take away the extremes, the liberal and the conservative views, and get something done that we can realistically enforce.

The academy has been dealing with the issue of scientific openness versus national security since 9/11,

The Bush campaign was all about national security. [Campaign members] implied ... that a vote for Kerry would put you in danger.

We regularly hold terrorists and spies accountable in court while safeguarding both national security and due process. We are confident in the system of justice to try these cases under the procedures adopted by Congress and regularly upheld by the courts.

This, post 9/11, is a situation that we can't explain or can't afford from a national security standpoint,