Leslie Hope Quotes

The FBI doesn't sit around all day and read tweets. The FBI's going to do their job. Robert Mueller's going to do his job.

I didn't know the organization, but the one thing you can say about the FBI, it's tremendously professional.

I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building up forensic evidence and fingerprinting. But he took down a lot of innocent people, too.

I have always had confidence in our front line F.B.I. personnel as well as the F.B.I. leadership.

Some of my best friends are FBI agents.

Terrorists and criminals are increasingly adept at exploiting cutting-edge technologies to carry out or to mask their crimes. To counter current and emerging threats, the FBI actively deploys a wide range of technology-based tools, capabilities, and training that enable and enhance intelligence, national security, and law enforcement operations.

Despite constant vilifying by the media and congressional threats to take away the tools needed to uncover plots, FBI agents and CIA officers work silently around the clock and risk their own lives to keep us safe.

But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States.

In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work.

Trade shows such as the wire tappers' ball are highly secretive and ban journalists from attending. None of the U.S. agencies that attended the wire tappers' ball - including the FBI, the Secret Service, and every branch of the military - were willing to comment when a reporter queried them about their attendance.

The new rule says that the FBI has the right to go to public places on the same terms and conditions as other members of the public for counter-terrorism purposes.

Some believe that the FBI has these phenomenal capabilities to access any information at any time - that we can get what we want, when we want it, by flipping some sort of switch. It may be true in the movies or on TV. It is simply not the case in real life.

Well, I'm a former FBI agent.

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

Since 9/11, the U.S.A. Patriot Act has torn down the invisible wall that was perceived as preventing the FBI and CIA from sharing information.

From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

The FBI is full of Fordham graduates keeping tabs on Harvard Men in the State Department.

Abolish the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency.

There are more FBI undercover agents in the ranks of the Communist Party than there were actual communists.

HUGE CIA OPERATION REPORTED IN U. S. AGAINST ANTIWAR FORCES

The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.

Anyplace we go in the world, when someone asks us what we do, we feel an immense pride in saying, 'FBI.'

I am confident that every action we took as the FBI detained individuals in the wake of 9/11 was appropriately done.

I always had a lot of respect for the hard work and the hours and the dedication it takes to do these jobs but even more now, yes. The fact that we've gotten the opportunity to go to the FBI and meet the people who do this for real and also have consultations with them.

In the wake of the September 11 attacks, it became clear that the FBI's number one priority must be the prevention of another terrorist attack.