- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The president says, 'What difference does it make what you call the enemy?' Are you kidding me? As an intelligence officer, I would never get away with that. I could never say, 'Well, you know, boss, I don't label this enemy that we're facing.'
- Complete
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- Nov 07, 2020
The intelligence community does not have complete 'eyes on' the totality of the Iranian nuclear program, nor can it guarantee that we have identified all of Iran's nuclear facilities and processes.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
The case for exploiting animals for food, clothing and entertainment often relies on our superior intelligence, language and self-awareness: the rights of the superior being trump those of the inferior.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.
- Nov 07, 2020
The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without - you know, good intelligence stops plots against the homeland. Without that intelligence, we cannot effectively stop it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When asked if I miss being in government, I usually try to lighten the moment by responding that I awake most days, read the paper, and then observe that, 'It's yet another great day to be the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency.'
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
An intelligence analyst may attribute an attack to al Qaeda, whereas a policy maker could opt for the more general 'extremist.'
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this movie, 'Zero Dark Thirty' about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Some have complained that too many 'secrets' were dished out by the intelligence and special operations communities to director Kathryn Bigelow, screenwriter Mark Boal and their crew, part of a broader pattern of using intelligence for political effect.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some tough questions. Among the toughest: In a political culture that every day demands more transparency and more public accountability from every aspect of national life, could American intelligence continue to survive and succeed? That jury is still out.
- Executive Branch
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
American political elites feel very empowered to criticize the American intelligence community for not doing enough when they feel in danger, and as soon as we've made them feel safe again, they feel equally empowered to complain that we're doing too much.
- Air Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an intelligence officer for what was then 8th Air Force, B-52 Air Force.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020