Intelligence Community Quotes

• One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

  William Feather

  Happiness, Civilization, Inner Peace

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• But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

  Charles Bass

  Technology, Community, Levels

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• Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.

  Jim Ramstad

  Community, Directors, Needs

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• Reports the CIA has concluded that Russian hacking of Democratic emails was aimed at helping Donald Trump defeat Hillary Clinton, a step beyond the intelligence community's earlier finding that Russia was simply trying to cast doubt on the integrity of our elections.

  Donald Trump

  Integrity, Russia, Community

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.

  Lindsey Graham

  Hurt, Community

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• We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.

  Jane Harman

  Organization, White, Community

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• Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.

  Tony Gilroy

  Moving, Community, World

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• Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national.

  Stephen Cambone

  Years, Two, Community

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• The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

  Gloria Naylor

  Law, People, Community

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• There were no whistleblower protections that would've protected me - and that's known to everybody in the intelligence community. There are no proper channels for making this information available when the system fails comprehensively.

  Edward Snowden

  Community, Whistleblowers, Information

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Woe to you who insults the intelligence community, if you're president.

  David Brooks

  Community, President, Woe

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have a running war with the media. And they sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community.

  Donald Trump

  Running, War, Media

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Before Bin Laden did everything but advertise. Yet he had to blow up the Twin Towers just to get the attention of anyone outside the intelligence community. So what did we do? We invaded the wrong country, killed the wrong madman, and too often used the wrong interrogation techniques on the wrong people-all because our leaders lost contact with the truth.

  Richard North Patterson

  Country, Blow, Interrogation Techniques

  Richard North Patterson (2012). “The Devil's Light: A Novel”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.

  Theodore Stevens

  Effort, Community, Currents

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• Our failure was that our intelligence community thought [Saddam Hussein ] had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction. That was a mistake. There is fallibility in human intelligence and in human decisions.

  Colin Powell

  Mistake, Mass Destruction, Community

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Our intelligence communities spend a lot of time and effort gathering a lot of strands and a lot of data [on Russian hacking]. There are times where they're very cautious and they say, "We think this is what happened, but we're not certain."

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Data, Effort

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• In order to do vigorous oversight, the leadership of the intelligence community has got to be straight with the American people and straight with the Congress. For there to be vigorous oversight, the intelligence community's got to be straight with the American people and the Congress and that has not been the case.

  Ron Wyden

  Order, People, Community

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways.

  Mike Rogers

  Community, Information, Way

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• The intelligence community is so vast that more people have top secret clearance than live in Washington. The U.S. will spend more on the war in Afghanistan this year, adjusting for inflation, than we spent on the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War combined.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  War, Years, People

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• Intelligence communities are very closed communities, but at the same time, you don't only learn how to fight terrorism. You need to learn about life, about West and East, geography, history, culture, there are many, many things that you learn in order to be able to solve puzzles.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Fighting, Order, Community

  "Son of Hamas". GQ interview, www.gq.com. March 11, 2010.

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• The US intelligence community is deeply allergic to the Freedom of Information Act. It is fair to say that the intelligence community does nearly everything in its power to avoid compliance with the Freedom of Information Act.

  Ryan Shapiro

  Community, Doe, Information

  Source: news.vice.com

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• The government would assert that individuals who are aware of serious wrongdoing in the intelligence community should bring their concerns to the people most responsible for that wrongdoing, and rely on those people to correct the problems that those people themselves authorized.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, People, Community

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• The intelligence community is very professional, they do their jobs well, they're the best intelligence gatherers in the world. They're dedicated, patriotic Americans. They will work with any president. They want to have a good relationship with every president.

  Adam Schiff

  Jobs, Patriotic, Good Relationship

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The idea that you know more than the intelligence community knows, it's a little like saying, I know more about physics than my professor.

  Joe Biden

  Ideas, Community, Littles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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