I told him what he did was a heinous, reprehensible, despicable, dastardly act and that he was going to the penitentiary for it,

I thought I was uncontroversial, and I thought I would just slide through. I naively told people that I was a non-controversial nominee.

The leaking of the name of a CIA [operative] is a dastardly act. It not only endangers the name of an agent who has put his or her life on the line for America, [but also] all their operatives and security ... It's a despicable thing to do. And some newspapers report that it was the White House that did it.

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told Trent Lott (R-MS), and told my son this voluntarily, ‘We're going to confirm your dad by December.’ The groups said, ‘No, not so fast’; so they were calling the shots, they were calling the tempo,

I told you what his salary was. Y'all act like I was telling you wrong.

Mike requested a meeting with the full board of directors, and I was happy to oblige. Mike has not told me exactly what it is he wants to say, or what he expects out of the meeting, but it will be useful to hear his side of a story that has obviously stirred up so much emotion.