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We've Had Experiences Where The President's Been Shot, But Never Had A Situation Where The Vice President Shot Somebody.

We Were Trying To Get All Of The Planes Down Out Of The Sky. And We Watched As The Towers Of The World Trade Center Collapsed - Something No One Expected And Anticipated. And You Could Sit There And See And Be Aware That Thousands Of People Were At That Moment Being Killed As A Result Of The Terrorist Attacks That Struck The United States.

One Of The Problems We Have As A Government Is Our Inability To Keep Secrets. And It Costs Us, In Terms Of Our Relationship With Other Governments, In Terms Of The Willingness Of Other Intelligence Services To Work With Us, In Terms Of Revealing Sources And Methods. And All Of Those Elements Enter Into Some Of These Leaks.

I've Worked For Four Presidents And Watched Two Others Up Close, And I Know That There's No Such Thing As A Routine Day In The Oval Office.

If We're Successful In Iraq ... We Will Have Struck A Major Blow Right At The Heart Of The Base, If You Will, The Geographic Base Of The Terrorists Who Have Had Us Under Assault Now For Many Years, But Most Especially On 9/11.