American - Politician | October 30, 1953 -
An issue that really concerned me when I was on the House Intelligence Committee was the quality of analysis.
Pete Hoekstra
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After the heavily politicized 2007 Iran NIE, many of us in Congress found it hard to take some intelligence analysis at face value.
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A real possibility exists that we will be forced to confront, contain, and ultimately defeat radicalism and al-Qaeda alone, or at least with far fewer allies in the region than we had before.
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The Panetta/Petraeus combo is a powerful tandem. I've seen both of them up close and personal at the CIA and in Iraq.
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The need to remove Col. Qaddafi should be self-evident.
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A wounded Qaddafi still in power would be an ongoing threat and menace to the rest of the world.
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America has historically met the challenges to its national security with decisive actions that defeated or, at a minimum, contained the threat.
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It seems that whenever America faced a challenge, it faced it and overcame it.
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Briefly after the 9/11 attacks, Republicans and Democrats were united in identifying the evil of the radical jihadists and fighting it.
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The world has devolved into a much more hardened and lethal place since that devastating September morning when Islamists assassinated nearly 3,000 Americans in the worst terror attack on U.S. soil.
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Islamists and their sympathizers hate us, and they will not stop hating us until we convert to ancient Islam. There is no middle ground or accommodation.
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan harbor incredible promise for America once they forge an effective partnership.
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