Local leaders decided the best way to get him out of New York politics was to support him for vice president of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

"The president, at the consensus recommendation of his inter-agency task force on interrogations and detainees did put in place a new group, the High-Value Interrogation Group, which will be housed at the FBI " "And it will bring together all the different elements of the intelligence community to get the best intelligence possible."

VOA: standard.2009.08.24