CIA Quotes - page 4

As far as the allegations of the CIA hacking into Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth, ... We wouldn't do that. I mean, that's just beyond the, you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we do. (John O. Brennan)
Throughout my career, I had the great fortune to experience firsthand as well as to witness what it means to be a CIA officer. View quote
John O. Brennan
Simply stated, the need for accurate intelligence and prescient analysis from CIA has never been greater than it is in 2013 - or than it will be in the coming years. View quote
John O. Brennan
The CIA has acknowledged that it has detained about 100 terrorists since 9/11, and about a third of them have been subjected to what the CIA refers to as 'enhanced interrogation tactics,' and only a small proportion of those have in fact been subjected to the most serious types of enhanced procedures. View quote
John O. Brennan
This is the research we did online for the 9/11 attacks... we gave this briefing internally at the CIA, they said, 'how'd you know all this stuff?' because at the same time one of the emails had the date... 9/11 as the attack date that was given. View quote
William Binney
I think there are too damn many institutions on the face of the earth as it is. Robert Graves said: 'As soon as women organize themselves in the male way with societies, memberships and rules, everything goes wrong.' I think that applies to artists, too. The artist stands for everything against institutions.. [Rosalyn Drexler reacted: 'Institutions and clear thought are opposites. You can't have one with the other']. Right! Institution to me means authority, coercion, mindlessness, bureaucracy; it means the Pentagon, the CIA, the army, organized denominational religion, prisons, mental hospitals. View quote
Elaine de Kooning
I would query about what do you mean in terms of civil liberties. ... Do we exchange information in ways we did not before? Absolutely. You can say that that is a -- to the extent that you exchange information between CIA, FBI, NSA and the like -- you could characterize that as somehow giving up liberties. But the fact of the matter is, it's understandable and absolutely necessary if you want to protect the security of the United States. View quote
Robert Mueller
Knowledge or no knowledge, the intelligence community is obliged to furnish estimates to military planners, even if they're worthless and very possibly misleading. If you are one of those strange ducks trying to understand what this nuclear business is all about and read the "respectable” journals the CIA leaks information to, please don't get the idea this makes you a more respectable arm chair analyst than anyone else. View quote
Samuel T. Cohen
The U. S. policy on Iraq, not just from Bill Clinton to Bush to Obama and beyond, has been consistent but that it's been consistent for six decades through eleven presidents. That included covert CIA operations, regime change, support for Saddam Hussein and a merciless policy of targeting the Iraqi civilian population. View quote
Jeremy Scahill
I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union. View quote
Aldrich Ames
I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon. (Ally Carter)
Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle. View quote
Chris Terrio
I play DEA, CIA, FBI, LAPD; I got 'em all. View quote
Dean Norris
Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA. View quote
Ed Markey
My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name. View quote
Harry Mathews
The original judgment of the FBI, the Secret Service, and the CIA was that there were three shots. I don't think that convinced us except as a statement by people, many of them who were familiar with ballistics. This question troubled me greatly. View quote
John Sherman Cooper
I don't think anybody ever thought about the CIA meddling in internal affairs. The shock of the President's death called for an immediate investigation. It actually lay in the jurisdiction of Texas. View quote
John Sherman Cooper
There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authority to unilaterally declassify them. View quote
Louis Stokes
Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may not have given a reporter Plame's name, he clearly identified her by telling the reporter that Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA agent. View quote
Louise Slaughter
My mother is not a CIA agent, but she's an Italian mother, and she'd do anything for her son. View quote
Adriano Giannini
As a beat reporter covering the CIA and intelligence world after the terrorist attacks of 2001, I could sense that many things I couldn't see or understand were changing, expanding, getting so big they were difficult to manage. (Dana Priest)
As I detail in my new book: 'Hard Measures, How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives,' there are many myths surrounding the detention of a relatively small number of top terrorists at CIA-run 'black sites' from 2002 until they were sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2006. View quote
Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.
The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress. View quote
Michael Hastings
My literal responsibility as director of the CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval; to inform. View quote
Michael Hayden
There is no part of the executive branch that more exists on the outer edge of executive prerogative than the American intelligence community - the intelligence community, CIA, covert action. My literal responsibility as director of CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval, to inform. View quote
Michael Hayden