Whatever happens, this should not slip by unnoticed.

To find that something could slip through, that possibly would not hold up to the test for which it was designed, it's scary.

Whatever happens... I must not... cry...

I'm over that. Whatever happens, happens. I think we have a program that's more than efficient. If someone wants to get involved in our business, so be it.

What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists -- whatever else they might be -- might also be rational human beings ; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States . . .

That's a very unnoticed, unheralded job that is not simple,