When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.

It is easy to make assertions that prewar intelligence was not distorted, hyped, or fabricated before a friendly audience,

Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.

Where he is placed is a matter of professional decision by the Secret Service and others and something that is properly in their hands and not in my hands. Whatever decision is necessary for his and the nation's safety, I'm for.

If our intelligence is either manipulated or if it's shaded or if in some way it is exaggerated, it is very, very dangerous for us, particularly as we go down the road and look at other threats,

statements before the [Iraq] war were deceptive and misleading and this is part of the pattern.