John Kiriakou Quotes About Cia

• It's not up to Google, it's not up to Apple to turn over our personal communications in order to save the country. It's up to the CIA and it's up to the FBI to recruit foreign - I mean to recruit human sources, rather, to penetrate these groups.

  John Kiriakou

  Country, Communication, Mean

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• The CIA has transformed from an organization created to recruit spies to steal secrets, into a paramilitary organization, a paramilitary force. It's not supposed to be a paramilitary force. It's not good at it. It needs to return to its roots.

  John Kiriakou

  Organization, Roots, Secret

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• If the CIA is going to disrupt future terrorist attacks, it needs to recruit spies to infiltrate those groups in order to disrupt the terrorist attacks. Not to rely on what you and I are putting in chat messages on Google or Apple.

  John Kiriakou

  Order, Apples, Google

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• Immediately after the September 11th attacks, I volunteered to go to Afghanistan in any capacity that the CIA wanted me. Four months passed before I was able to go overseas, just because my skill set was not one that was important in those really early days after the attacks.

  John Kiriakou

  Skills, September 11, Important

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• I had never really given any thought to working for the CIA, but graduation was upon me; I was getting married just a week or two after graduation; I had no job, no prospects for a job. And so I said sure, I'd be interested in working for the CIA.

  John Kiriakou

  Jobs, Two, Married

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• 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, Cia

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• You can't just blurt the information out to the Russian foreign minister and the Russian ambassador. What happens is, the information goes back to the CIA, to the originating office. The CIA will pull the relevant information out of the report, put it on a new blank sheet of paper and then type at the top, "Secret releasable to Russia." That way, nobody gets in trouble, no sources and methods are revealed, everybody's happy, and we can establish something of a liaison relationship to the Russians. That's not what the president did.

  John Kiriakou

  Office, Secret, President

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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