Reply #39: That's not rational ...

[Pepperbelly]

So you're telling me that if you were a Senator and the National Security Adviser and the CIA briefed you with 27 color 8X10 glossy photos with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was, and they assure you that the clock was ticking for a mushroom cloud over Chicago or San Diego, that you would somehow have intuited that the CIA was lying to you?

Can you honestly say that? I cannot. Perhaps you're much smarter or more perceptive than I but I would have been seriously alarmed by such a portrait by the NSA and CIA. And if I was seriously alarmed over the prospect and failed to support provisions that might protect us, I would have been grossly violating my oath of office.