I will continue to push for a full accounting of the historical record so that we may preclude these types of failures from happening again,

For the 9/11 commission to say that this did not exist is just absolutely outrageous. It's a total denial of the facts.

There is no doubt that the Soviets stored material in this country. The question is what and where.

The Sept. 11 commission's statement that it does not believe a secret military intelligence unit discovered a group of future hijackers more than a year before the terrorist attacks is

They have maintained there is no information about Able Danger or the data mining work. They could not find anything. ... It is absolutely unbelievable to me that a commission would come out and say that this program just didn't exist.

It's not just the cost involved, ... But the potential impact to men and women in uniform is impossible to calculate .... There should be some type of punitive action taken.