Walter Pincus Quotations

I am prepared to answer questions identifying the source who released me from my pledge of confidentiality.

It took time for him to be accepted because essentially, he'd never worked for CIA. He was looked on as a kind of Capitol Hill bureaucrat.

It's almost an umbilical cord. And that's helped strengthen what the agency's done.

A key component of President Bush's claim in his State of the Union address last January that Iraq had an active nuclear weapons program -- its alleged attempt to buy uranium in Niger -- was disputed by a CIA-directed mission to the central African nation in early 2002, according to senior administration officials and a former government official.

Are you kidding? I certainly would have remembered that.

This is the whole thing: Each one of us has a different relationship with our sources.