Classified Information Quotes

• I'll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information. We'll protect sources and methods, but we won't use sources and methods to hide the truth.

  Barack Obama

  Pages, Information, Empires

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• We need to make sure that leaks of classified information, of national security secrets, needs to be rigorously pursued and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

  John O. Brennan

  Law, Secret, Information

  Council on Foreign Relations meeting, www.cfr.org. August 8, 2012.

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• Some of you may think that you are not of interest because you don't have access to classified information. You are mistaken.

  Dan Payne

  Thinking, Information, May

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• My understanding is that espionage means giving secret or classified information to the enemy. Since Snowden shared information with the American people, his indictment for espionage could reveal (or confirm) that the US Government views you and me as the enemy.

  Ron Paul

  Mean, Government, Views

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• I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends.

  Curt Weldon

  Worry, Information, Reason

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• The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, People, Effort

  Presser on Wikileaks Release of Confidential Documents, delivered 29 November 2010, Treaty Room, Washington, D.C.

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• People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.

  David Baldacci

  Book, People, Doe

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• I think anybody in our - in the, in the national security apparatus has, has got to take full cognizance of their responsibility for the safeguarding of classified information.

  Michael Mullen

  Responsibility, Thinking, Information

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• People, I am actually fairly smart. Why has this not occurred to anyone? The information is all out there, if you go looking for it, and the classified stuff just comes from analyzing the unclassified stuff and connecting the dots.

  Tom Clancy

  Smart, People, Information

  "Clancy Speaks Again, Briefly". Tom Clancy's post, clancyfaq.com, February 12, 2000.

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• If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.

  Harold H. Greene

  Real, Data, People

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• I regret if my actions hurt anyone or harmed the United States. It was never my intent to hurt anyone. When I chose to disclose classified information, I did so out of a love for my country and a sense of duty to others.

  Chelsea Manning

  Country, Hurt, Regret

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• Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are too important to be shared, that only those in the know can see classified information, that only the president has all the facts, that we must simply trust that our rulers of acting in our interest.

  Garry Wills

  Government, Self, Essence

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• Hillary Clinton said there was no marked classified information on her server. The FBI Director said that's untrue.She said that she did not email any classified information. The FBI Director says that's untrue.

  Chris Christie

  Information, Email, Directors

  "Chris Christie: 'It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now'". Republican convention speech, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

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• There is evidence that Democrates were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.

  James Comey

  Information, Sensitive, Evidence

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Listen, I know of nobody -- I don't know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified information. If somebody did leak classified information, I'd like to know it, and we'll take the appropriate action. And this investigation is a good thing.

  George W. Bush

  Information, Administration, Action

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• This is not only a possible breach of national security; it is a potential violation of law. Under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, it is a crime for anyone who has access to classified information to disclose intentionally information identifying a covert agent.

  David Corn

  Law, Identity, Agents

  "A White House Smear" by David Corn, www.thenation.com. July 16, 2003.

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• Hillary Clinton was an outstanding secretary of state. She would never intentionally put America in any kind of jeopardy. And what I also know, because I handle a lot of classified information, is that there's classified and then there's classified. There's stuff that is really top secret top secret, and there's stuff that is being presented to the president or the secretary of state that you might not want on the transom or, you know, going out over the wire, but is basically stuff that you could get in open source.

  Barack Obama

  America, Secret, Wire

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I don't think a woman [Hillary Clinton] who has revealed numerous classified information, doesn't know that the letter "C" means confidential.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Mean, Thinking, Letters

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• If my son or your son handled classified information the way that Hillary Clinton did, they'd be court marshaled.

  Mike Pence

  Son, Information, Way

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Obviously, as secretary of state, I had some of the most important secrets that we possess, such as going after bin Laden. So I am very committed to taking classified information seriously.

  Hillary Clinton

  Secret, Important, Information

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the second 2016 Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, www.nytimes.com. October 9, 2016.

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• People sometimes say I broke an oath of secrecy - one of the early charges leveled against me. But it's a fundamental misunderstanding, because there is no oath of secrecy for people who work in the intelligence community. You are asked to sign a civil agreement, called a Standard Form 312, which basically says if you disclose classified information, they can sue you; they can do this, that and the other. And you risk going to jail.

  Edward Snowden

  Jail, Agreement, People

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.

  James Comey

  Law, Information, Sensitive

  James Comey's Statement on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-Mail System, www.fbi.gov. July 5, 2016.

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• Our investigation looked at whether there is evidence classified information was improperly stored or transmitted on that personal system, in violation of a federal statute making it a felony to mishandle classified information either intentionally or in a grossly negligent way, or a second statute making it a misdemeanor to knowingly remove classified information from appropriate systems or storage facilities.

  James Comey

  Information, Way, Investigation

  James Comey's Statement on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-Mail System, www.fbi.gov. July 5, 2016.

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• Clapper has been straight and direct in the answers that he's given, and has actively engaged in an effort to provide more information about the programs that have been revealed through the leak of classified information.

  Jay Carney

  Nsa, Effort, Answers

  "James Clapper: Obama stands by intelligence chief as criticism mounts" by Spencer Ackerman, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2013.

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• Leaking classified information is a crime. And if we have evidence that somebody in the executive branch is committing a crime, we should prosecute that person.

  Paul Ryan

  Branches, Information, Crime

  Source: time.com

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