Cia Quotes - Page 4

• I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just dont understand that world. But I think I do understand individual human harmfulness.

  Sophie Hannah

  Writing, Thinking, Mafia

  "Sophie Hannah: 'I love being thought of firmly as a crime writer. I'm snobby about books that aren't crime fiction'". Interview with Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2014.

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• Last night when I was commenting on the FBI and the CIA, the sound went off for 27 minutes. I should have known better.

  Jimmy Carter

  Night, Should Have, Sound

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• The most cost-effective move we could make in defense spending would be to shift the focus of CIA operations, giving this agency the directive to make trouble for the Soviet Union.

  John P. Wheeler III

  War, Moving, Agency

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• All mathematics is divided into three parts: cryptography (paid for by CIA, KGB and the like), hydrodynamics (supported by manufacturers of atomic submarines) and celestial mechanics (financed by military and other institutions dealing with missiles, such as NASA).

  Vladimir Arnold

  Military, Kgb, Three

  "Polymathematics: is mathematics a single science or a set of arts?". Mathematics: Frontiers and Perspectives, edited by V. I. Arnold, M. Atiyah, P. Lax, and B. Mazur, pp. 403 - 416, 2000.

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• The new CIA torture report is 6 million pages long. It's almost as long as a George Clooney pre-nup.

  David Letterman

  Long, Pages, Torture

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• Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism.

  David Copperfield

  Technology, Gentleman, Magic

  "David Copperfield Talks NOW YOU SEE ME on Blu-ray/DVD, His Collaboration on the Film, Drawing Inspiration from Cinema, and Being a Good Showman". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. September 8, 2013.

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• I have done very little in my life except go to school and work for the CIA. Intellectually I think I did everything I could. Emotionally you always think you should have something more.

  Tyler Drumheller

  School, Thinking, Should Have

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It is now well-known that the Taliban's creation was facilitated by the CIA and the ISI as part of the 1980s anti-Soviet war.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Well Known, Creation

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• In 2012 Roger Ailes, you know, desperately tried to get who into the race? Chris Christie, a somewhat moderate if tough talking from a purple state. They were very interested this David Petraeus, a figure who served in the Obama administration as CIA chief.

  Donald Trump

  Race, Talking, Purple

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [CIA manipulating] has its roots in internal Pakistani affairs. It's a horrible development and phenomenon which goes back to radical Islamisation under Zia and taking away the long standing rights of people in the tribal areas [who were left largely alone].

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, Roots, Long

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• Essentially Rumsfeld wins, Cheney wins, and the CIA and State Department lose. Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld have more centralized control over intelligence, analysis, and operations than ever before. And the way they interpret the law, if the President authorizes an intelligence mission to be run covertly by the Pentagon, they don't have to tell anybody, including Congress, about it because the President is the commander in chief.

  Seymour Hersh

  Running, Winning, Law

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I think clearly Europe has a lot to worry about. When I was working at the CIA - and I always worked with a lot of European services - they always were very condescending toward the United States, saying that we are so racist vis-à-vis blacks and other people.

  Michael Scheuer

  Thinking, Europe, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We have President-elect [Donald] Trump out there calling the CIA assessment that Russia was trying to help elect him ridiculous. He also questions - says he doesn't believe the earlier findings of all 17 intelligence agencies that Russia was trying to get involved in our elections.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Believe, Russia, Agency

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• It wasn't until about a year, year and a half in where I began to realize that the Pentagon and our national-security apparatus and the CIA were all getting too comfortable with the technology as a tool to fight terrorism, and not being mindful enough about how that technology is being used and the dangers of a form of warfare that is so detached from what is actually happening on the ground. And so we initiated this big process to try to get it in a box.

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Technology, Years

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• [Barack Obama] pledged to end torture, but he has continued the CIA renditions where you kidnap people and send them to another country to be interrogated.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, People, Ends

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• It's much less romantic in that you have to go to www.cia.gov and click "Apply Now." For me it was much more clandestine.

  John Kiriakou

  Clandestine, Clicks

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• My government revoked my passport intentionally to leave me exiled. If they really wanted to capture me, they would've allowed me to travel to Latin America, because the CIA can operate with impunity down there. They did not want that; they chose to keep me in Russia.

  Edward Snowden

  Latin, Russia, Government

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• It will be the CIA's mission and my own if confirmed to ensure that the agency remains the best in the world at its core mission - collecting what our enemies do not want us to know. In short, the CIA must be the world's premier espionage organization.

  Mike Pompeo

  Organization, Agency, Enemy

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The Donald Trump team hit back with a swift and stunning rebuke of the CIA. Quote, "These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction."

  Donald Trump

  Team, Mass Destruction, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• During the terrorist regime in Haiti in the 1990s, the CIA, under the administration of Bill Clinton, was reporting to Congress that oil shipments had been blocked from entering Haiti. That was just a lie. I was there. You could see the oil terminals being built and the ships coming in.

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, Oil, Entering

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• ... to say that the CIA and the KGB engage in similar practices is the equivalent of saying that the man who pushes an old lady into the path of a hurtling bus is not to be distinguished from the man who pushes an old lady out of the path of a hurtling bus: on the grounds that, after all, in both cases someone is pushing old ladies around.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Men, Practice, Kgb

  The Right Word (1996).

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• White House political adviser Karl Rove was one of Robert Novak's sources for the 2003 disclosure of a CIA operative's identity, according to a story published today in "Duh" magazine.

  Andy Borowitz

  White, House, Political

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• The CIA special unit that was searching for Osama bin Laden has been disbanded. So I guess, mission accomplished.

  David Letterman

  Special, Osama Bin Laden, Disbanded

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• I don't trust American intelligence. You look at the torture report from the Senate: People inside the CIA are saying that it doesn't work, and we're getting the information not from torture, but simply from questioning people.

  Robert Baer

  People, Looks, Information

  "Torture, Drones, and Hollywood: A Former CIA Operative Talks". Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. December 23, 2014.

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• The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

  Robert Baer

  Bureaucracy, Incompetent

  "Torture, Drones, and Hollywood: A Former CIA Operative Talks". Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. December 23, 2014.

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