The charges are out there, and if there was misuse or distortion [of the Iraq intelligence], we need to know it.

I suspect there will be multiple reasons, and none of them the easy reason - someone simply distorted the intelligence, they were pressured - I don't think that's the answer. I think the answer is far more complex because other countries also came up with similar estimates, and indeed, the U.N. inspectors themselves when they left in '98 drew a very stark assessment of Iraq's WMD program. So it was a series of people who made errors, and I suspect it will turn out to be a series of errors and not a single one. But we won't know until we conduct the investigation that's required to find out that answer.

There is a lot of proof [supporting the U.S. case against Iraq] -- the proof of failure to allow inspectors in and failure to allow inspectors, once in, to conduct inspections in an unfettered manner.

the intelligence community owes the president (an explanation) rather than the president owing the American people.

to discuss his role in manipulating the intelligence that led to war with Iraq.

In the case of Iraq the quality of intelligence and the analysis of that intelligence was abysmally bad.