Umar Quotes
If you set foot on your enemies' land, get spies on them. Choose those whom you count on for their truthfulness and advice, whether Arabs or inhabitants of that land. Liars' accounts would not benefit you, even if some of them were true; the deceiver is a spy against you and not for you.
Omar Ibn Al-Khattab, 581-644, Umar I, Second Caliph of Islam, Letter to Saad Ibn Abou Wakkas
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Agree resigned from the CIA in protest to its political position.
This is done in modern times. Note that the objective is NOT to arrest or execute the enemy spies but to turn them into what we call “Double Agents.”
He was referring to the testimony given before the Senate of James R. Clapper, U. S. Director of National Intelligence. He denied that the NSA was collecting data on millions of American communications. Then Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA was capturing data on ALL U. S. phone calls and e-mails. See {634917} for details on the false testimony.
While that is true, nonetheless, our members of Congress and the Executive Branch act to the media as if they are outraged whenever we catch an individual spy. Our allies do the same when they catch our spies. So almost everyone plays the game.
Indeed his valet was a spy who worked for the British. However, Franklin assumed that European courts and capitals were filled with spies, and instead of trying constantly to ferret them out, he made sure that he never allowed anyone to know what he wanted to keep secret. While Jefferson essentially adopted the same viewpoint, John Adams, much more uptight and rigid, was very distressed with Franklin over their differences in counter-espionage strategy. In reality, no secrets ever leaked back to England, but their spies sent some of the most absurd reports of the “evil” Dr. Franklin. He was designing a huge set of lenses that could be pointed at the British fleet in the Channel, magnify the rays of the sun and set the ships ablaze. Another had Franklin designing a chain that would be stretched from France to England and an electric current transmitted thereupon causing the English island to blow up. These reports made Franklin and the French the first who were feared for their plans to design and deploy weapons of mass destruction.
ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, was the second Rashidun caliph, ruling from August 634 until his assassination in 644. He succeeded Abu Bakr (r. 632–634) as the second caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate on 23 August 634. Umar was a senior companion and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He was also an expert Muslim jurist known for his pious and just nature, which earned him the epithet Al-Fārūq ("the one who distinguishes (between right and wrong)"). The title Amir al-Mu'minin was held by Umar ibn Khattab who was also the first one to be given this title.
