The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.
Michael Mandelbaum
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We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq. -
The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law. -
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