John McLaughlin Quotes
Even allies don’t share every single interest that you have. That’s a law of nature in the international system. They will tell you most of what you need to know but there may be some things that they don’t tell you that you need to know in order to formulate your policy as wisely as you can.
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John McLaughlin, CIA Deputy Director, Explanation of why spying on allies is done, PBS The Charlie Rose Show, July 11, 2014
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“The word “monitoring” is a polite diplomatic word for “spying on”. She made this statement in July of 2014 when the Germans discovered that the United States was spying on their government and ejected key Americans from the country. Albright was explaining that this is extremely common and “normal” between allies. See {640830} for more on this subject.
John McLaughlin is an English guitarist, bandleader, and composer. A pioneer of jazz fusion, his music combines elements of jazz with rock, world music, Indian classical music, Western classical music, flamenco, and blues. After contributing to several key British groups of the early 1960s, McLaughlin made Extrapolation, his first album as a bandleader, in 1969. He then moved to the U.S., where he played with Tony Williams's group Lifetime and then with Miles Davis on his electric jazz-fusion albums In a Silent Way, Bitches Brew, Jack Johnson, and On the Corner. His 1970s electric band, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, performed a technically virtuosic and complex style of music that fused electric jazz and rock with Indian influences.
