“The CIA knew who they were, they knew that they were suspected al Qaeda operatives, they failed to alert the INS [Immigration and Naturalization Service], the State Department, the Customs Service, agencies who could have kept them out of the country.”
Michael Isikoff
“When I heard them being described as CIA agents ... I knew what would happen. Then we found out our loved ones had been tortured in a most cruel way. It's a nightmare.”
Antoaneta Uzunova
“It's not true. We knew about those two guys - the CIA lost them.”
Bob Kerrey
“It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!”
William F. Buckley Jr.
“I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.”
George Bush
“We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.”
Jane Harman
“Parochialism is one of the CIA's biggest problems. These career CIA officers, while having valuable experience, also carry the baggage of being resistant to change. The status quo may be comfortable to them, but it is dangerous to the country.”
Christopher Bond
