Let me say this. I'm the Director of -- I'm the Director of Central Intelligence. The President of the United States sees me six days a week, every day. I tell him what the American intelligence community believes,
Iran's success in gaining technology and materials from Russian companies, combined with recent indigenous Iranian advances, means it could have a medium-range missile capability much sooner than I assessed last year.
We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period.
One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they Al Qaeda intend.
raised several concerns about the fragmentary nature of the intelligence with National Security Council colleagues. Some of the language was changed.