” ‘Either we’re serious about fighting the war on terror or we’re not, he [Vice President Dick Cheney] said [on December 20, 2005]. ‘Either we believe that there are individuals out there doing everything they can to try to launch more attacks, to try to get deadlier weapons to use against us, or we don’t. The president [Bush] and I believe very deeply that there’s a hell of a threat, that it’s there for anybody who wants to look at it. And that our obligation and responsibility given our job is to do everything in our power to defeat the terrorists. And that’s exactly what we’re doing.’ ”
– James Bamford, The Shadow Factory, Page 112