“I was in the Justice Department for three years. I remember my entry briefing by the CIA. I can tell the date of it. I remember my exit interview from the CIA. And I remember that "C" in parentheses meant confidential.” YearsI CanRememberThreeJusticeInterviewsDepartmentThree YearsCiaExitEntryConfidentialBriefingParentheses Author:Rudy Giuliani
“You know, terrorism in Afghanistan had everything to do with the support for the mujahidin by Saudi Arabia and by the CIA that sought to create an international religious extremist group to fight the Soviet Union.” KnowsFightingReligiousSupportGroupsUnionsInternationalTerrorismAfghanistanSovietSoviet UnionCiaExtremistArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisExtremist Groups Author:Jill Stein
“The FBI demonstrated this by taking down the former head of the CIA [General David Petraeus] over classified information given to his mistress. Almost no-one is untouchable. The FBI is always trying to demonstrate that no-one can resist us. But Hillary Clinton very conspicuously resisted the FBI's investigation, so there's anger within the FBI because it made the FBI look weak. We've published about 33,000 of Clinton's emails when she was Secretary of State.” TryingLooksMadeStatesGivenInformationWeakClintonFormerInvestigationSecretaryEmailMistressAlways TryingCiaFbiUntouchablesClassified Information Author:Julian Assange
“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.” WellsWarKnownCreationSovietWell KnownCiaTaliban Author:Noam Chomsky
“I can understand the idea that there is a conspiracy. In fact, in much of the world there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the Pakistani Taliban, etc. That is just nonsense. They [CIA] created a monster and now they are appalled by it.” WorldI CanIdeasFactsHappensRunningPowerfulSpringMonstersEtcNonsenseConspiracyCiaTalibanUltrasArab Spring Author:Noam Chomsky
“[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].” PeopleLongLeftRightsDevelopmentAreasStandingRootsAffairHorribleRadicalInternalsPhenomenonCia Author:Noam Chomsky
“[President Donald Trump ] trusts the CIA. This is about 17 or so unnamed agencies in an unnamed report that based the report on something that is totally false.The RNC was not hacked. And so the report is basically trying to make the case that the RNC was hacked, the DNC was hacked, and the only e-mails that came out were DNC e-mails, so therefore, this is the conclusive report that the Russians or whoever was doing the hacking wanted to unfairly change the election.” TryingWantedPresidentCasesTrumpElectionAgencyReportsMailCiaHackingHacked Author:Reince Priebus
“The report also said that there wasn't agreement among the 17 agencies. When the FBI came out - they came out - when there was a conclusion on the DNC, their conclusion was very clear and they made it public. Now, if the CIA or whoever else comes out. But they didn't conclude that it was Russia.I don't care if it's Russia or whoever, they shouldn't - we're going to protect Americans. We don't want these countries or whoever else these people are hacking our country, our parties, our - we protect our Americans. We don't like it. We're against it.” PeopleIfsWantMadeSaidCountryCarePartyClearProtectDon't CareRussiaConclusionOur CountryMade ItI Don't CareAgencyReportsAgreementCiaFbiHacking Author:Reince Priebus
“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.” TryingBelieveHelpingPresidentTrumpInvolvedCallingFindingsElectionRidiculousRussiaAgencyGet InvolvedCiaAssessmentIntelligence Agencies Author:George Stephanopoulos
“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.” LyingBuiltBillsClintonCongressOilTerroristShipsAdministrationRegimesEnteringCiaHaitiBlocked Author:Noam Chomsky
“[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.” PeopleEndsCountryBarackTortureCia Author:Nat Hentoff
“We have no idea how much the government knows and how much the CIA even knows about average citizens. The government is not supposed to be doing this in this country. They listen in on our phone calls. I am not exaggerating because I have studied this a long time.” KnowsLongIdeasCountryGovernmentCitizensLong TimeAveragePhonesSupposed To BeNo IdeaCiaPhone CallsExaggerating Author:Nat Hentoff
“I think what you're going to get from President-elect [ Donald] Trump is all of his folks together - Rex Tillerson, James Mattis, John Kelly, CIA, Homeland Security, everyone that you would want in the room, making decisions about that particular document and treaties like that document as to how we're going move forward.” ThinkingWantTogetherMovingPresidentDecisionRoomsSecurityParticularTrumpFolksMoving ForwardDocumentsCiaHomelandTreatiesMaking DecisionsHomeland Security Author:Reince Priebus
“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.” TryingYearsEnoughBigsFormUsedFightingProcessRealizingHalfTechnologySecurityDangerComfortableHappeningsToolsBoxesTerrorismWarfareNational SecurityCiaDetachedPentagon Author:Barack Obama
“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.” IfsWantGovernmentWantedAmericaRussiaLatinCaptureLeaving MeCiaLatin AmericaPassportsImpunity Author:Edward Snowden
“We know definitively that Al-Qaida isn't all over Afghanistan anymore. According to CIA estimates, there are less than a hundred Al-Qaida members in the entire country. Most of them are in Pakistan. So, it's hard for me to understand why we're still fighting there and sending in more and more troops. I would get out of Afghanistan as quickly as possible.” KnowsStillsCountryHardFightingMembersHundredAlsAfghanistanTroopsPakistanCia Author:Jimmy Carter
“For a President not to have confidence in, not to be prepared to listen to the myriad of intelligence agencies from defense intelligence, to the CIA, etcetera, is absolutely mindless. It's just mindless.” PresidentPreparedDefenseAgencyBe PreparedCiaHave ConfidenceMindlessIntelligence AgenciesEtcetera Author:Joe Biden
“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.” IfsKnowsWorldWantMy OwnEnemyOrganizationRemainsMissionsCoreAgencyWant UCollectingCiaEspionage Author:Mike Pompeo
“The CIA runs the drone program in Pakistan solely, not with the military. Then there's a joint CIA-military program in Yemen, then the CIA is involved in a lot of use of spy drones around the world and in the proliferation of bases.” WorldUseRunningMilitaryInvolvedProgramBasesAround The WorldPakistanSpyJointsCiaDronesProliferationYemen Author:Medea Benjamin
“[Subjects of the targeted killings] are supposed to be high-level Al Qaeda operatives that pose an imminent threat to the U.S. and American personnel and citizens. There's supposed to be no way to capture them. The "kill list" is calculated in the "terror Tuesdays" at the White House every week, where the President and his advisors - including CIA - "nominate" people to be on the kill list.” PeopleWayHousePresidentWhiteLevelsWeekSubjectsCitizensThreatKillingIncludingTerrorListsSupposed To BeWhite HouseAlsCaptureCiaAl QaedaHigh LevelTuesdayPersonnelAdvisors Author:Medea Benjamin
“There is a real attempt to sanitize the CIA killings and to glorify the CIA and to give it a new face. That's what happened with Zero Dark Thirty, that's what happened with Michelle Obama... When she appeared my jaw dropped; I couldn't believe it... These were really a disgusting propaganda films, glorifying the role of the CIA.” GivingBelieveRealFilmFacesDarkRolesHappenedKillingPropagandaThirtyZeroDisgustingCiaGlorifyNew FacesZero Dark Thirty Author:Medea Benjamin
“The CIA is absolutely out of control. The CIA has been on a killing spree... The CIA has become a death squad and to see these films [ like Zero Dark Thirty] get so much acclaim at the time when the CIA is in its rogue killing phase is very disturbing.” Has BeensFilmDarkKillingThirtyZeroPhasesDisturbingCiaRoguesSquadAcclaimZero Dark Thirty Author:Medea Benjamin
“Bin Laden actually is the most European or westernized of all the Arab leaders. He's the one who is the most polished ironically. He's smart and handsome and rich... you know, he's quite the eligible guy. Well trained by the CIA. He's a very dangerous man indeed and he now has this franchise called Al Qaeda, which rivals Starbucks in its ubiquity.” KnowsMenWellsGuyLeaderRichDangerousSmartAlsHandsomeRivalsCiaBin LadenAl QaedaPolishedStarbucksDangerous ManUbiquity Author:Alexander Siddig
“After a short period of time in Pakistan, it's clear that drones are not a security solution. If you believe in drones, the original idea was to go after so-called high-value targets, which according to the NYU-Stanford study 2% of the people killed by drones are high-value targets - now, who are all the rest of the people? Well, it's a secret program, so therefore the CIA doesn't have to tell us anything, yet they claim that with each attack they're getting militants. Now we have people coming forward, saying, actually, no we're not terrorists.” PeopleIfsBelieveWellsIdeasValuesSecretStudyClearSecurityPeriodsSolutionsProgramClaimsOriginalsTerroristTargetPakistanIf You BelieveCiaDronesOriginal IdeasStanfordNyu Author:Robert Greenwald
“If you look at the history of the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller, in Latin America, in Indonesia, where almost a million people, mainly Communists, were killed by General Suharto, who was backed by the CIA, in South Africa, in the US Civil Rights Movement - or even now, it's very disturbing. They have always worked closely with the US State Department.” PeopleIfsLooksStatesAmericaMillionsRightsMovementFoundationSouthCivil RightsDepartmentLatinCommunistSouth AfricaDisturbingIndonesiaCiaCivil Rights MovementLatin America Author:Arundhati Roy
“Russian government was in contact with multiple [Donald] Trump campaign sources while they were doing [attacks]. Russian nemesis in the American government, U.S. State Department, CIA, are not faring well since Donald Trump came to power.” WellsStatesGovernmentSourceTrumpCampaignsContactDepartmentMultipleCiaAmerican GovernmentNemesisRussian Government Author:Rachel Maddow
“The men and the women in the CIA, they do their job regardless of who is in the White House. Same for NSA. Same for FBI. These men and women are putting themselves in harm's way. Have to deal with difficult situations.” MenHouseDifficultSituationHe ManMen And WomenCiaFbi Author:Will Hurd
“I served as Chairman of the Intelligence Committee. Let me tell you, it's tough to find out what the CIA is doing. They led us astray on the weapons of mass destruction that they said Saddam Hussein found. We sent out Collin Powell, Secretary of State, former National Security Counselor, chief of staff, four star general, couldn't find it out. I'd be reluctant to cut into term limits. I think if the voters would become informed and aroused, they could impose the proper limits on the guys who ought to be out.” ThinkingGuyTermCuttingSecurityToughDestructionLet MeSecretaryNational SecurityCiaWeapons Of Mass Destruction Author:Arlen Specter
“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.” PresidentSecretTroubleOfficeRelevantCia Author:John Kiriakou
“Obama found a lot of people that think just like he does, and he put them in the intelligence community. Can you imagine? When you think of the intelligence community, don't you think of super patriots, don't you think of people out there even risking their lives to defend and protect the Constitution and the people of this country and this country itself as founded? No. That's not the kind of people Obama put at the CIA.” PeopleThinkingKindCountryCommunityImagineProtectConstitutionPatriotCia Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Remember, the left corrupts everything, folks. The Democrat Party, the left corrupts every institution. They politicize it, and by virtue of that alone they corrupt it. And so at the NSA, at the Defense Intelligence Agency, at the CIA, and at the FBI, there are Obamaites, there are people that think like he.” PeopleThinkingRememberPartyVirtueDemocratCiaFbi Author:Rush Limbaugh
“You do your job every day. When things go right, there's never any coverage. But when certain things happen, boy, the world descends on you and they plug you into a narrative that has been established that you're either a pig, you're a racist, you're a hater, and that's why you joined the cops and so forth. The good work you do - it's kind of like the CIA, every success nobody can ever know. You guys, not that your work is clandestine, but it's not news when you save a kid.” WorldKindKidsGuyBoysThings HappenRacistCopGood WorkCia Author:Rush Limbaugh
“This was a big leak that WikiLeaks published, and it was hacking software developed by the CIA and the FBI that was able to leave fingerprints of other countries. So the CIA could hack our election to make it look like the Russians did it.” CountryElectionSoftwareCiaFbi Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The thing that strikes me, from looking at the names so far in the Donald Trump's Cabinet on the foreign policy side, is the one thing that unites them - and that's General James Mattis at the Pentagon, Mike Pompeo at the CIA, even Mitt Romney to become secretary of state - they're all very, very hawkish on Iran.” PolicyForeign PolicySecretaryCia Author:Geoff Dyer
“The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system.” HelpingWinningSecretElectionCia Author:Rachel Maddow
“Another big moment in terms of that feeling was David Petraeus: if the director of the CIA can't get away with having a secret relationship, then what hope do you have? It's not really an original idea, but there's something that goes along with power and celebrity that starts to make you feel like you're impervious to certain forces that the rest of us have to live with.” MomentsFeelingsTermSecretLike YouGet AwayCia Author:Jonathan Dee
“Our support for the Shah, the CIA coup in 1953 - has become infused into the Iranian political discourse. The regime that came to power in 1979 during the Iranian revolution actually defined itself as anti-American, and that's now a critical ingredient in the Iranian domestic political debate. That really is the source of our problems - the regime in Tehran continues to see itself as opposing the US. In their eyes, everything the US does is directed at them in a very malevolent way, and therefore they have to fight back against it.” ProblemEyePoliticalFightingSupportRevolutionDebateCiaIranian Author:Kenneth M. Pollack
“The US have dealt with Iran. I'm not saying attack it; I'm saying we should have taken it seriously. The Iranian connection to 9/11 is much stronger than the Iraqi one ever was. That was the big lie: That Saddam had something to do with 9/11 - not the WMD - the connection between Saddam and bin Laden. We were spun on that and we were spun on the famous Prague meeting between Mohammed Atta and Iraqi intelligence, which was a complete lie. Both the CIA and the FBI came out and said that never happened.” LyingTakenStrongerMeetingsCiaFbiBin LadenIranianSpun Author:Robert Baer
“I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.” PeopleDecisionLife And DeathCia Author:Leon Panetta
“When I was about, I'd say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because they know those intimate secrets... So I was just always into knowing. I like to know things.” KnowsYearsWantedSecretKnowingIntimateCia Author:Michelle Rodriguez
“You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. And you could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors.” PeopleLongPowerfulSpecialFieldsMetsLong TimeMy FriendsFavorsAgentsJapanAsiaCiaAdviserCia Agents Author:Steven Seagal
“My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.” WellsSpeakHeardCia Author:Steven Seagal
“If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want. Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id (IMEI), and so on - it's all the same.” IfsWantResultsNumbersPhonesAccessCellsEtcUsersEmailCiaFbiCell PhoneNsaAnalystsPhone NumbersDatabasesQueries Author:Edward Snowden
“Most of the secrets the CIA has are about people, not machines and systems, so I didn't feel comfortable with disclosures that I thought could endanger anyone.” PeopleFeelsSecretComfortableMachinesCiaDisclosure Author:Edward Snowden
“The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United States.” PeopleMeanStatesUnitedUnited StatesCiaTranslatorsImpeccableCredentials Author:Michael Bloomberg
“Let's remember, the CIA's job is to go out and create wars.” WarJobsRememberCia Author:Jesse Ventura
“The men and women of the CIA are a national treasure.” MenMen And WomenTreasureCiaNational Treasure Author:John O. Brennan
“Throughout my career, I had the great fortune to experience firsthand as well as to witness what it means to be a CIA officer.” WellsMeanCareersFortuneWitnessOfficersCia Author:John O. Brennan
“Simply stated, the need for accurate intelligence and prescient analysis from CIA has never been greater than it is in 2013 - or than it will be in the coming years.” NeedsYearsGreaterAnalysisAccurateCia Author:John O. Brennan
“Foaly: Anyone see you come in here? Holly: The FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA, MI6. Oh, and the EIB. Foaly: The EIB? Holly: (smirking) Everyone in the building.” BuildingCiaFbiNsaHolliesArtemis Fowl Author:Eoin Colfer