“that would basically allow the CIA to engage in torture.”
John McCain
“Neither Dr. Rice nor the White House has objected to allowing the committee access to CIA documents sent to the White House, and in fact, White House lawyers made copies of these documents available to the committee last summer.”
Sean McCormack
“It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!”
William F. Buckley Jr.
“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
“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
“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
“Valerie was not a crier and she wasn't a wimp. She was 22 and very young coming into the CIA, but she was very mature, very professional.”
Larry Johnson