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Plan Backwards As Well As Forward. Set Objectives And Trace Back To See How To Achieve Them. You May Find That No Path Can Get You There. Plan Forward To See Where Your Steps Will Take You, Which May Not Be Clear Or Intuitive.

I Don't Think We'll Discover Anything, Myself. I Think What Will Happen Is We'll Discover People Who Will Tell Us Where To Go Find It. It Is Not Like A Treasure Hunt Where You Just Runaround Looking Everywhere Hoping You Find Something. I Just Don't Think That's Going To Happen. The Inspectors Didn't Find Anything, And I Doubt That We Will. What We Will Do Is Find The People Who Will Tell Us.

When You Raise Issues With The President, Try To Come Away With Both That Decision And Also A Precedent. Pose Issues So As To Evoke Broader Policy Guidance. This Can Help To Answer A Range Of Similar Issues Likely To Arise Later.

The Reality Is That Terrorists Can Attack Any Time At Any Minute, 24 Hours A Day, Using A Variety Of Techniques, In Any Place At All. And It's Not Possible To Defend In Every Place, Against Every Technique, Against Every Conceivable Approach. It Means That You Can't Stop Every Terrorist Attack. Innocent Men, Women And Children Are Going To Be Killed If Terrorists Are Determined To Do It.

There's No Debate In The World As To Whether People Have Weapons Of Mass Destruction... We All Know That. A Trained Ape Knows That.