After the attacks on September 11th, we all learned lessons.

There is no worse place for an intelligence service like CIA to be than on Page 1, above the fold in your daily newspaper.

I believe we do have a great intelligence service. Is it good enough in all circumstances? Of course not. We live in the human condition. We try to make it better each day.

MEMRI counts the federal government as a customer for its analysis, and the MEMRI logo is often visible on the B-roll video of major news networks. Other private firms create their own information rather than tracking that of others.

There's a bigger difference between the first and second Bush administrations than there is between Bush and Obama. That's really true.

In my own private-sector work, I have become intrigued with RIWI, a Canadian based company that surveys random respondents on the Web to measure attitudes in otherwise hard-to-reach places.

Intelligence is often viewed as a profession that steals secrets and then knits those secrets together for policymakers in order to inform their judgments.

National security looks different from the Oval Office than it does from a hotel room in Iowa.

Great weight should be given to the judgment of professionals on what information, if disclosed, would harm national security.

Most of the 9/11 hijackers weren't married, none of them had families inside the United States, and there's no evidence that any family members moved before, during, or after 9/11.