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You Can't Fall Back On The Private Sector And Say, 'you Take Care Of The Nation's Banking System.' That's A Fundamental Function Of The Government, The Federal Reserve, The Treasury And The Fdic, Etc. All Of Those Agencies Have A Major Role To Play There.

You Know, In This Business, You Don't Have Any Control Over What The Press Says And How They Portray Things. And That's Their Prerogative. But I Think Anybody Who Looks At It Objectively Has Trouble Making The Case That Somehow This Is A Bad Economy.

We Also Have To Work, Though, Sort Of The Dark Side, If You Will. We've Got To Spend Time In The Shadows In The Intelligence World. A Lot Of What Needs To Be Done Here Will Have To Be Done Quietly, Without Any Discussion, Using Sources And Methods That Are Available To Our Intelligence Agencies... That's The World These Folks Operate In, And So It's Going To Be Vital For Us To Use Any Means At Our Disposal, Basically, To Achieve Our Objective.

I Do Find That The Mainstream Media Oftentimes Is What I Would Consider Off Base Or Has A Bias.

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 And Provide Sanctuary And Safe Harbor For Them. We Were Prepared To Use Our Intelligence Assets The Way We Would Against An Enemy That Threatened The United States Itself, To Put In Place, For Example, Things Like The Terror Surveillance Program And To Have A Robust Interrogation Program On Detainees. Those Are The Acts You Take When You Feel You're At War And That The Very Existence Of The Nation Is Threatened.