(59 quotes found)
“It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!”
William F. Buckley Jr.
“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
“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 offers one-year sabbaticals to some of its agents who are considering leaving. Those who do leave may still be tapped for their expertise on an as-needed basis.] Indeed, it is common practice for the CIA to keep the security clearance of former agents long after they leave the agency so they can accept missions on an occasional basis, ... Why? In order to maximize their massive training investment and, even more critical, to give the individual a strong personal incentive to maintain the integrity of the proprietary information in her brain.”
Bruce Tulgan
“The leaking of the name of a CIA [operative] is a dastardly act. It not only endangers the name of an agent who has put his or her life on the line for America, [but also] all their operatives and security ... It's a despicable thing to do. And some newspapers report that it was the White House that did it.”
Charles Schumer
“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
“I've become friends with a number of CIA agents who come here, but they really don't share that many stories.”
Dave Baldwin
“I am aware of no CIA official who would have -- or possibly could have -- confirmed the details of the New Yorker's inaccurate account.”
Bill Harlow
“It took time for him to be accepted because essentially, he'd never worked for CIA. He was looked on as a kind of Capitol Hill bureaucrat.”
Walter Pincus
