Community Quote by Lawrence Wright

The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how…

— Jane Harman

The intelligence community was absolutely uniform and uniformly wrong about the existence of weapons of mass destruction (in Iraq).

— Laurence Silberman

Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.

— Nancy Gibbs

In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not…

— Hillary Clinton

The U.S. intelligence community is in a very poor position to be trusted with protecting civil liberties while engaging in intelligence work.

— Chelsea Manning

But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if…

— Adam Schiff

“A careful analysis of the September 11th attacks reveals that deficiencies in U.S. intelligence collection and information sharing, not immigration laws, prevented the terrorists’…

— Bill Ong Hing

We have not learned the lessons of 9/11. This wrongful suspicion, racial hatred, and profiling is what I keep seeing.

— Mira Nair

After 9/11 we were prepared to use military force. We were prepared to go after not only the terrorists, but those who sponsor terror…

— Dick Cheney

The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.

— Adam Schiff

Our failure was that our intelligence community thought [Saddam Hussein ] had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction. That was a mistake. There is fallibility…

— Colin Powell