More than five years later, fundamental questions remain unanswered. The cold war may be over, but in many ways the world remains dangerous.
Terrorism respects no boundaries.
Nor do organized crime and drug trafficking. Ethnic groups come more frequently into conflict in places with potentially important but unfamiliar implications for U.S. interests. The United States would be ill-equipped to address these challenges without intelligence, including information provided by secret sources. We protected that data. We counted it.