"A person seeking to be the President of the United States should not suggest violence in any way." — Michael Hayden

Access to the security clearance database would disgorge even more detailed personal information, including the foreign contacts of American officials.

In the Cold War, a lot of Soviet actions could be explained as extensions of Czarist imperial ambitions, but that didn't stop us from studying Marxism in theory and Communism in practice to better understand that adversary.

I know of no government official who would welcome an army of inspectors general combing through four years of emails on their unclassified accounts. That's why they use government accounts, where the government remains responsible for security, and they don't mingle personal correspondence with official.

I think the Sino-American relationship is the most important geo-strategic question facing us.