Sen. Bob Graham, May 2002:
GRAHAM: Yes, I think, Mike, you put your finger on it. It is the job of the intelligence community to have creativity and imagination so they can look at a series of events and try to see a pattern from those events. But it is the intelligence community's responsibility, in my judgment, not the president of the United States. He's not expected to be a trained analyst and case officer. If there was someone who should have been taking the information from that August briefing paper, which is one of the most closely-held documents in Washington, as I say, I know I haven't seen it, I don't think Senator Shelby has seen it...
WALLACE: How come?
GRAHAM: Because it is only for the president's eyes and absolutely those who are absolutely the closest to the president. But if there were to have been a reaction to it and recommendations as to what to do, those would normally have come from the intelligence community itself.