"As each day goes by, we learn that this government knew a whole lot more about these terrorists before Sept. 11 than it has ever admitted," Cleland told the New York Times (10/26/03).

"Let's chase this rabbit into the ground here," Cleland said in an interview (Salon, Nov. 2003). "They had a plan to go to war, and when 9/11 happened that's what they did. They went to war." He called this "a national scandal."