Chris Christie Quotes
We cannot make the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the United States someone who has risked America's secrets and lied about this to Congress and the American people about it day after day after day.
Christie, Chris. "Address to the Republican National Convention." 2016 Republican National Convention, Cleveland, OH, 19 July 2016.
The convention turned down the constitution and would not ratify it until the Bill of Rights was passed later. By modern standards, Presidents in modern times have withheld much information from the Congress and in some cases such as the George W. Bush administrations, the President and his cabinet frequently lied to the Senate, the House, and the American people with no effort made to impeach. Based on the original intent of the Americans ratifying the Constitution, the Executive Branch may not keep anything material to the security of the country secret from Congress. But the center of both parties reject this regardless of what the original intent was.
George W. Bush had told the country that the reason for the Iraq War was that Iraq had developed weapons of mass destruction. After the invasion it was determined that there were no such weapons that had justified the war. Debate since has concentrated in whether the Bush administration had pressured the intelligence experts to provide the information they wanted to justify the war or whether the administration was misled by their intelligence agencies.
Agree resigned from the CIA in protest to its political position.
Testifying about the instructions he gave his staff for testifying before Congress:
Christopher James Christie is an American politician, political commentator, lobbyist and former federal prosecutor who served as the 55th Governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018.
