COFER BLACK

We’ve got to accept that we’re going to lose people in this deal. How many, I don’t know. Could be a lot.

We’ll bring bin Laden’s head on a platter with flies on his eyeballs.

The United States government does not negotiate with terrorists.

As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism.

The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none.

I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.

Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.

You give us the mission, we can get ‘em. We’ll rout ’em out. When we’re through with them, they will have flies walking across their eyeballs.

We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.

We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.

We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us and our allies.

We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.

We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us and our allies.

The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that's not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence.

The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.

We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.

The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none.

Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.

I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.

Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.

No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise to take their place.

As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism.

Sir, then they’re just going to have to die.

You give us the mission, we can get ‘em. We’ll rout ’em out. When we’re through with them, they will have flies walking across their eyeballs.

We’ll bring bin Laden’s head on a platter with flies on his eyeballs.

There was before 9-11 and after 9-11. After 9-11, the gloves came off.

My mission was not to assure that little girls could go to school in Afghanistan. My mission was not to establish a legal system in Afghanistan. That was not my mission. My mission was to destroy Al Quaeda and to do that we had to overthrow the Taliban.

The United States government does not negotiate with terrorists.