Oliver North Quotes

Every witness withholds information from the Congress.

If the President really wanted to know exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down to their offices and demand that they answer him honestly.

I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago.

Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.

Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty.

And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.

There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

Well that's true, and what is actually happening now is that there are accusations that those records contain conspiratorial information that has been concealed from the American people and that is a dangerous situation that just cannot be tolerated.

Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.

I am not trying to bring down the NSA, I am working to improve the NSA. I am still working for the NSA right now. They are the only ones who don't realize it.

The central question is simply put: What did the president know and when did he know it?

Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty. And you can't investigate up the chain of command, which is a huge impediment.

While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.

I’m not your lawyer. But if I were in your shoes, I’d tell the President to burn the tapes immediately and then proclaim he’d done so as a matter of national security and executive privilege and out of an obligation to protect the office of the presidency.

You can’t have Congressional hearings on classified matters.

What did the President know and when did he know it?

Had the investigation been left to the government, the current administration would have concealed its own mistakes and blamed its predecessors, That is not a criticism of the Bush White House. Any administration would do the same.

[William J.] Casey was guilty of Contempt of Congress from the day he was sworn in.

Richard Helms … did not tell the truth to the Warren Commission when he testified. It is clear that the CIA “did have an axe to grind” during our investigation.

Ensuring that the intelligence community adheres to its responsibilities to report on its activities to Congress is absolutely essential.

Edward Snowden, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, professes to have had access to whatever he wanted to know about anyone's anything. If he's telling the truth, why does he have such permeability without any government oversight? Is that OK with you?

It is clear that Michael Cohen was not truthful with the House Intelligence Committee, which is all the more reason that we never should have ended our investigation.

Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.

Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.

That we have had to sue in federal court to discover the truth speaks volumes. The FBI has built a protective stonewall around Comey by refusing to release the Comey memos and refusing to disclose records of communications between the FBI and Comey prior to and regarding Comey's testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee.