Intelligence Agencies Quotes - Page 2

• [Hillary Clinton] never misused [ information that the Central Intelligence Agency has]. She always protected it. I would trust her with the crown jewels of the United States government. And, more importantly, I would trust her with the future security of the country and the future security of my kids.

  Michael Morell

  Country, Kids, Agency

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• If a regular law enforcement agency wants your phone records, all they have to do is issue a subpoena. But now the intelligence agency is not able to quickly gather records and look at them to see who these terrorists are calling.

  Marco Rubio

  Agency, Phones, Law

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• With the new Russia allegations coming to the fore once again, the conclusion of the intelligence agencies, we've got to have those [Donald Trump's] taxes to evaluate whether these conflicts go to the heart of our most pressing national security interests.

  Norman L. Eisen

  Heart, Russia, Agency

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The drug war isn't what purports to be. If you look at the whole operation and the tie-in between the American intelligence agencies, these so-called "assets", the spies on the payroll of the CIA, and drug dealers. Don't let members of Congress and the media get away with this complacency and distortion!

  Jerry Brown

  War, Ties, Agency

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• I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.

  Edward Snowden

  Senior, Agency, Information

  "NSA Leaker Edward Snowden in His Own Words: 'You're Being Watched"'". Interview with Glenn Greenwald, www.truth-out.org. July 04, 2013.

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• Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.

  Gaddis Smith

  Agency, Yale, Class

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• This is systems security for the Central Intelligence Agency. We would like to know why you are attempting to hack one of our classified databases.

  Dan Brown

  Agency, Databases, Attempting

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• Now, is it the case that Facebook is actually run by U.S. intelligence? No, it's not like that. It's simply that U.S. intelligence is able to bring to bear legal and political pressure on them. And it's costly for them to hand out records one by one, so they have automated the process. Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.

  Julian Assange

  Running, Agency, Hands

  "WikiLeaks revelations only tip of iceberg - Assange". Interview with Laura Emmett, www.rt.com. May 2, 2011.

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• I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.

  George J. Mitchell

  Military, Agency, Office

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• John Howard's credibility on the entire Iraq war has been torpedoed by John Howard's own intelligence agency.

  Kevin Rudd

  War, Agency, Iraq

  "Howard under fire over Iraq". edition.cnn.com. July 17, 2003.

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• In 1975 a Senate committee headed by Frank Church found that the [Central Intelligence] Agency had planned a number of assassination operations, using everything from poison to machine guns and sometimes mob hit men

  Jim Garrison

  Men, Gun, Numbers

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• I strongly agree that a National Intelligence Director should be established to oversee and coordinate the 15 federal intelligence agencies.

  Jim Ramstad

  Agency, Directors, Should

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• Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.

  Aldrich Ames

  Party, Agency, Volunteer

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• Representatives of the American intelligence agencies - and I hope they won't be angry - but they could have been more professional, and the diplomats as well. After they found out that he was flying to us, and that he was flying as a transit passenger, there was pressure from all sides - from the Americans, from the Europeans - instead of just letting him go to a country where they could operate easily.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Gay, Agency

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• You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk.

  Edward Snowden

  Powerful, Agency, Nsa

  "Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will'". Interview with Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2013.

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• US intelligence agencies will only use such data to meet specific security requirements: counterintelligence, counterterrorism, counterproliferation, cybersecurity, force protection for our troops and allies, and combating transnational crime, including sanctions evasion.

  Barack Obama

  Agency, Nsa, Data

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• [I will] totally dismantle every intelligence agency in this country piece by piece, nail by nail, brick by brick

  Ron Dellums

  Country, Agency, Nails

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• We believe, from everything we have been told by the intelligence community, by 12 years of history with Iraq, by the experience of the U.N. inspectors and by other intelligence agencies in other countries that Saddam Hussein had the intention to develop weapons of mass destruction and to have such weapons, and that was a sound judgment which I still believe to this day because he had had them in the past, he'd used them in the past.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Believe, Past

  "Secretary of State Colin Powell". Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 25, 2004.

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• As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which calls and data are diverted to government servers or the big data algorithms they've written to be used on our e-mails by intelligence agencies.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Technology, Agency, Government

  "Edward Snowden is a hero". Article by Douglas Rushkoff, edition.cnn.com. June 11, 2013.

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• When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency.

  George Tenet

  Men, Agency, Years

  Speech of CIA Director George Tenet, www.americanprogress.org. February 5, 2004.

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• We are going to see a great number of articles in the future from so-called experts and public officials. They will warn about more violence, more kidnappings, and more terrorists. Mass media, the armed forces, and intelligence agencies will saturate our lives with fascist scare tactics and 'predictions' that have already been planned to come true.

  Mae Brussell

  Agency, Media, Scare Tactics

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• You are also asked to take an oath, and that's the oath of service. The oath of service is not to secrecy, but to the Constitution - to protect it against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That's the oath that I kept, that James Clapper and former NSA director Keith Alexander did not. You raise your hand and you take the oath in your class when you are on board. All government officials are made to do it who work for the intelligence agencies - at least, that's where I took the oath.

  Edward Snowden

  Hands, Nsa, Class

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• For a President not to have confidence in, not to be prepared to listen to the myriad of intelligence agencies from defense intelligence, to the CIA, etcetera, is absolutely mindless. It's just mindless.

  Joe Biden

  Agency, President, Etcetera

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The day after the Republican convention ended, there was another political bomb that was dropped on the U.S. presidential election [2016] from Russia. The day after the Republican convention ended, right before the Democratic Convention began we got what U.S. intelligence agencies believed to be the next big Russian incursion into our election. We got the first WikiLeaks dump.

  Rachel Maddow

  Russia, Agency, Presidential

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• When I talked to [Donald Trump] about - our intelligence agencies, what I've said to him is - is that there are gonna be times where you've got raw intelligence that comes in and in my experience, over eight years, the intelligence community is pretty good about saying, "Look, we can't say for certain what this means." But there are gonna be times where the only way you can make a good decision is if you have confidence that the process is working, and the people that you put in charge are giving you their very best assessments.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Agency, Eight

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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