It's part of the warp and woof and fabric of DOD not to like the intelligence community.

The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.

This provides vivid insights into what (a terrorist) situation might be like. It makes me even tenfold more worried -- if that's possible -- than I was before.

I have no idea, ... That text was presented to me by the secretary only days before the presentation, and the secretary's words were something to the effect of, 'This is what the White House has given us.' And that was the text I took to the CIA and within 16 hours had totally discarded because it was garbage.

They made my point for me, ... The decisions were not made in the principals' process, in the deputies' process, in the policy coordinating committee process. They were not made in the statutory process.

They began to authorize procedures in the armed forces that led to, in my view, what we've seen.