“It scares me a bit that we dismantled the CIA to the point that it now takes five years to rebuild it.”
Thomas Kean
“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
“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
“A CIA officer's name was blown and there was a leak and we needed to figure out how that happened, who did it, why, whether a crime was committed, whether we could prove it, whether we should prove it. Given national security was at stake, it was especially important that we find out accurate facts.”
Patrick Fitzgerald
“I don't think the CIA should be involved in counting the number of policemen in the Gaza Strip to check up on the Palestinians,”
Ehud Barak
