“Newspapers are closed if they print the wrong things in Iran. Iranian journalists or Iranian-American journalists, for that matter, I think are pressured in a lot of different ways, expected to give information to intelligence services. Americans can be thrown out of the country.” IfsThinkingWayGivingDifferentCountryMatterInformationExpectedNewspapersJournalistDifferent WaysThrownIranPrintWrong ThingsIranianPressuredIntelligence Services Author:Steve Inskeep
“We haven't really had the time yet to pore through all those records in Baghdad. We'll find ample evidence confirming the link, that is the connection if you will between al Qaida and the Iraqi intelligence services. They have worked together on a number of occasions.” IfsTogetherNumbersRecordsHavensEvidenceConnectionsOccasionsAlsLinksBaghdadIntelligence Services Author:Dick Cheney
“Our intelligence agencies will continue to gather information about the intentions of governments - as opposed to ordinary citizens - around the world, in the same way that the intelligence services of every other nation does. We will not apologize simply because our services may be more effective.” WorldWayMayDoeGovernmentNationsInformationCitizensOrdinaryIntentionAround The WorldAgencyApologizingNsaIntelligence AgenciesOrdinary CitizensIntelligence Services Author:Barack Obama
“In the United Kingdom at various stages, journalism has been the profession of gentlemen amateurs. And some of them even pride themselves on being amateurs. Their quality is not comparable with the quality of intelligence services even if most of them harbor a remarkable degree of corruption and incompetence.” IfsHas BeensUnitedQualityStagePrideDegreesVariousCorruptionProfessionKingdomsJournalismGentlemanRemarkableHarborsIncompetenceUnited KingdomIntelligence Services Author:Julian Assange
“On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?” IfsMenSecretAffairCooksSecretaryEspionageRobinsIntelligence Services Author:Frederick Forsyth
“The intelligence services would probably be in a better position to make an assessment of the advancement of the Iranian nuclear program than Podhoretz or Ledeen. They don't have access to any specific information. So for them to dismiss it has no great value because they have no authority whatsoever on this issue. For them to push forward with their efforts to get a war started between the U.S. and Iran, you certainly cannot say that Iran does not have a nuclear program. If you say that, then the justification for war has basically been eliminated.” IfsDoeWarValuesEffortIssuesInformationPositionAuthorityProgramAccessNuclearIranJustificationAdvancementAssessmentIranianGreat ValueIntelligence Services Author:Trita Parsi
“Iran is hard to understand. Although it is ruled in an authoritarian manner, it's not a state in which everything is controlled from one center. There are many forces that work in parallel: the military, the intelligence service, the Revolutionary Guard, the clergy and the government. They all share a fear of the nation's youth.” HardStatesGovernmentForceNationsShareMilitaryYouthRevolutionaryIranControlledParallelsClergyIntelligence Services Author:Shahin Najafi
“There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.” WorldDoneGovernmentFacesDigitalYour FaceDigital WorldSoapboxIntelligence Services Author:Bill Gates
“We know that Russian intelligence services, which is part of the Russian government which is under the firm control of Vladimir Putin, hacked into the DNC. And we know that he arranged for a lot of those emails to be released.” KnowsGovernmentFirmEmailPutinHackedIntelligence ServicesRussian Government Author:Hillary Clinton
“Did you follow what [General Yehoshafat] Harkabi wrote? Formerly of the Israeli military intelligence service. Remember him? Did you follow what he wrote? He said that it was for the sake of the existence of Israel that we have to accept the rights of the Palestinians to have their independent state.” SaidStatesRememberExistenceAcceptingRightsMilitaryIndependentSakeIsraelPalestinianIsraeliMilitary IntelligenceIntelligence Services Author:Yasser Arafat
“Through the threat of IS, we recognize how important the cooperation with intelligence services (inaudible) first and foremost also with the services of the United States is.” FirstsImportantStatesUnitedUnited StatesThreatCooperationIntelligence Services Author:Angela Merkel
“You will recall that for months after 9/11, there was incredible support and sympathy for the US. I really hoped and wished they had played on that, and kept all these friends they had made, and found a way of dealing with the terrorists through co-operation of international intelligence services, police exchange of information.” WayMadeFoundSupportInformationMonthsPoliceIncrediblesInternationalTerroristOperationsRecallsIntelligence Services Author:Kofi Annan
“Where are we going to reject that easy but flawed process of letting the intelligence services do whatever they want? It's inevitable that it will happen. I think it's going to be where Internet businesses go.” ThinkingWantHappensEasyProcessInternetInevitableRejectsFlawedIntelligence ServicesInternet Business Author:Edward Snowden
“I don't concede that Guccifer is a Russian agent. Officials also said, that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Just because the intelligence services say something, as we know from history, does not make it true.” KnowsDoeSaidWeaponsMassDestructionAgentsOfficialsSaddamHusseinWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionIntelligence Services Author:Roger Stone
“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.” HumansGrowthImaginationBusinessWonderLimitsIntelligencePatrioticEconomic GrowthBusiness GrowthHuman IntelligenceInspiring BusinessIntelligence Services Author:Ronald Reagan
“The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.” LittlesRoomsSecretOppositesLondonParksStationsTubesIntelligence ServicesSecret Intelligence Author:John le Carre
“One of the problems we have as a government is our inability to keep secrets. And it costs us, in terms of our relationship with other governments, in terms of the willingness of other intelligence services to work with us, in terms of revealing sources and methods. And all of those elements enter into some of these leaks.” ProblemGovernmentTermWorkSecretSourceCostElementsIntelligentMethodWillingnessOur RelationshipInabilityRevealingLeaksRelationships With OthersIntelligence Services Author:Dick Cheney
“All the intelligence services of America and Europe know full well that the disastrous attack ( of 9/11 ) has been planned and realized from the Mossad.. with the aid of the Zionist world in order to put under accusation the Arabic countries and in order to induce the Western Powers to take part in Iraq and Afghanistan.” KnowsWorldWellsHas BeensCountryAmericaOrderEuropeWesternIraqAidsAfghanistanAccusationZionistIntelligence Services Author:Francesco Cossiga
“We did not lack for religious leaders to urge us into "godly" war [...]. All of this was part of a well-financed propaganda campaign on the part of British agents. As usual, the government of the United States was being "run" by the British Secret Intelligence Service.” WellsWarStatesGovernmentRunningReligiousUnitedSecretLeaderUnited StatesBritishCampaignsAgentsPropagandaCivil WarUrgesUsualGodlyReligious LeadersIntelligence ServicesSecret Intelligence Author:Eustace Mullins
“An intelligence service is the ideal vehicle for a conspiracy.” IdealsConspiracyVehicleIntelligence Services Author:Allen Dulles
“You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.” HeartSecurityNational SecuritySovereigntyNational SovereigntyIntelligence Services Author:Gijs de Vries
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” LoveLifeGodScienceImaginationKnowledgeCreativityLearningWise WordsWords Of WisdomIntelligentIntelligencePhysicistTrue FriendFollow Your HeartUnschoolingTrue KnowledgeCreative ImaginationImagination And CreativityImagination CreativityPower Of ImaginationKnowledge And LearningKnowledge And IgnoranceVivid ImaginationImagination And RealityImagination RealityIntelligence ServicesCreativity And LearningSame ThinkingCreative IntelligenceTrue IntelligenceGrowing KnowledgeIntelligence Gathering Author:Albert Einstein
“Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries.” CountryFactsStupidSourceIraqGentlemanOther CountriesAssertionIraq WarLadies And GentlemenIntelligence Services Author:Colin Powell
“It [the intelligence service] concludes that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons, that Saddam has continued to produce them, that he has existing and active military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, which could be activated within 45 minutes, including against his own Shia population; and that he is actively trying to acquire nuclear weapons capability.” TryingUsePlansMinutesMilitaryProduceWeaponsIncludingIraqPopulationActiveNuclearAcquireChemicalsCapabilityNuclear WeaponsSaddamShiaBiological WeaponsIntelligence Services Author:Tony Blair
“I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services; adopting also means like pressure, money, sex - but that did not characterize my service.” PeopleFeelsMeanUseUsedSexMoneyPressureMethodCommandTraditionalAgentsAdoptingIntelligence Services Author:Markus Wolf