military who argued that the primary mission of intelligence should be direct tactics support to the warfighter and that now at this time in 2004 was no time to centralize intelligence anywhere else be it in the current system with the director of central intelligence located at langley virginia, dci who in their estimation might retain the two other vengeance that the dci had mainly human intelligence and covert action but especially not into a new super empowered individual spymaster because they viewed this as a zero-sum game that any rebalancing of authority a way from the department of defense would degrade the department of defense's intelligence capabilities. the two principle players in this camp for secretary rumsfeld and vice president cheney. secretary rumsfeld is of course very quotable. he at the time was vociferously against the 9/11 commission's recommendations and he wrote in a letter to george bush from this time period something that i think is very notable and you can almost hear some of the intensity in his voice which was something basically that the united states congress,

military who argued that the primary mission of intelligence should be direct tactics support to the warfighter and that now at this time in 2004 was no time to centralize intelligence anywhere else be it in the current system with the director of central intelligence located at langley virginia, dci who in their estimation might retain the two other vengeance that the dci had mainly human intelligence and covert action but especially not into a new super empowered individual spymaster because they viewed this as a zero-sum game that any rebalancing of authority a way from the department of defense would degrade the department of defense's intelligence capabilities. the two principle players in this camp for secretary rumsfeld and vice president cheney. secretary rumsfeld is of course very quotable. he at the time was vociferously against the 9/11 commission's recommendations and he wrote in a letter to george bush from this time period something that i think is very notable and you can almost hear some of the intensity in his voice which was something basically that the united states congress,

affect anything i would do because the ultimate thing we have to number is our military, they are warfighters. that's what they do. that's what we want them to do. that's what we want to continue to empower them to do. so this idea that somehow the perception of a commander is going to be less and if he's not the one making this, hopefully, very small part of their overall duties, which is who's going to face a court-martial and who's not. i haven't seen anything that convinces me that that's going to be or should be a problem, other than the fact that was expressed early on in some of our panel meetings. i haven't heard that as much lately. that particular idea. the other thing that we all need to keep in mind is, with injustice, it's perception that counts a lot. it counts an awful lot. in your jurisdiction, congresswoman, well, i just went blank on your name. .com in your jurisdiction, when you were district attorney in brooklyn, if the perception was that justice was being done, then just as wasn't being in the mind of the public. and that's part of the issue here. we cannot deny this gro