American - Public | March 17, 1945 -
I believe we do have a great intelligence service. Is it good enough in all circumstances? Of course not. We live in the human condition. We try to make it better each day.
Michael Hayden
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There is no worse place for an intelligence service like CIA to be than on Page 1, above the fold in your daily newspaper.
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NSA is a very conservative culture legally. Our lawyers at NSA were notorious for their conservatism up through the morning of September 11th, 2001. The single most consistent criticism of the NSA legal office by our congressional oversight committee was that our legal office was too conservative.
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I have spent my adult life working in American intelligence. It has been quite an honor. Generally well resourced. A global mission. No want of issues. And it was a hell of a ride.
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Nothing more threatens Vladimir Putin than not being able to track his own citizens.
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I don't know if the European Union contributes a great deal to espionage. At the union level, they talk about commerce and privacy. But to keep citizens safe, that remains a responsibility back in national capitals.
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The question is how much of your privacy and your convenience and your commerce do you want your nation's security apparatus to squeeze in order to keep you safe? And it is a choice that we have to make.
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The Constitution defends all of us against unreasonable search and seizure. What constitutes reasonableness depends upon threat.
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George Tenet was actually a very strong centralizing force. If you met George by personality, George met with the president six days out of seven: nontrivial attribute inside the federal government. And George was head of the CIA.
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Public discussion of how we determine al Qaeda intentions, I just - I can't see how that can do anything but harm the security of the nation.
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The attorney general is the only one who can authorize what's called an emergency FISA.
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People don't question American power. What people need to be convinced of is American will.
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