liberal arts education had reinforced the idea that freedom was indeed a fragile thing. the context is you gave a speech two days after september 11 to the entirety of the nsa. and i think what you were saying is our object activity, we intel professionals, our object jek activity is being challenging, is he challenging the object jek activity of the entire intelligence community. he is rejecting judgments from the art and craft of intelligence, we believe to be objective judgments. i will be the first to admit, sometimes, occasionally they aren t correct judgments, i get that. this is very hard work. but the criticism of the intelligence community s judgments on this issue have been that the community is incompetent and politic sized and prejudice. that is simply not right. i think the dynamic we have here is we have a president-elect who has been able throughout the