I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.

'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.

One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.

'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.