Government operations must be guided by the rule of law to avoid negative consequences for the nation.

“we need to be guided by the rule of law in the United States there was a period there have been a couple of periods over the course of the history of the CIA where we've gotten away from that and it has never turned out well”

The American framework for government is defined by a capacity for flexibility and change rather than rigid adherence to existing laws.

“I believe that the framework that the United States lives and leads by is the framework of change it is not a framework of rigidity and legality”