Kit Bond, who cares very much about not overstating threats:

Feinstein’s GOP counterpart, Kit Bond (R-Mo.), chided Attorney General Eric Holder for being definitive about Shahzad’s Taliban connections on Sunday talk shows. “I am not convinced by the information I’ve seen so far that there is adequate, confirmable intelligence to corroborate the statements on Sunday television shows,” Bond said. “We hear there are lots of strong suspicions and lots of trails [the intelligence community is] following. I think people should wait to speak about the origins until they are certain about it.”

Kit Bond in 2004 about Saddam Hussein’s pre-war non-relationship with al-Qaeda:

This was a country like honey attracting ants – the terrorists were coming into Iraq.”

Kit Bond on CNN, October 7, 2002:

We have seen since 1998 when [Saddam Hussein] threw out the inspectors, there have been increasing intelligence reports about his acquisition of weapons of mass destruction. I don’t think anybody will ever forget the site when we lost roughly 3,000 people, a weapon of September 11. Chemical, biological, or heaven forbid, nuclear weapons, could kill 10, 100 or 1,000 times more American citizens. We cannot sit back and wait, when all the information we have is he is preparing those weapons for use against us.

Kit Bond in a Senate floor statement, January 2003:

Every minute we wait, Saddam Hussein’s efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction and to share them continue. Every minute we wait, the surviving al-Qaida terrorists plot their next attack. We fear it may be a weapon of mass destruction, particularly chemical and biological attack.

Also see Glenn Greenwald.