Gina Haspel Quotes

I was in the CIA for nine years. I am intimately familiar with the information classification system. I used it every day on the job. Like every other one of my colleagues at the agency, I approached the handling of classified information with immense care because I understand the ramifications.

The long-standing policy of allowing officials access to intelligence on a ‘need to know’ basis should be abandoned.

I think anybody in our - in the, in the national security apparatus has, has got to take full cognizance of their responsibility for the safeguarding of classified information.

Our agency (the Central Intelligence Agency) is the last refuge of organizational privacy available to the U. S. Government.

It's common for information previously considered unclassified to be upgraded to classified before being publicly released.

I don't welcome leaks. There's a reason why these programs are classified.

Libby was advised by the vice president of the United States that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA in the counterproliferation division. Libby understood that the vice president had learned this information from the CIA.

I think that is a responsibility we all share as Americans. But as State Department employees, we have a special duty to guard ourselves and our sensitive information. Complying with department policies and being alert to potential threats will help protect all of us.

Only a very small number of the e-mails containing classified information bore markings indicating the presence of classified information. But even if information is not marked 'classified' in an e-mail, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it.

I take classified materials very seriously and always have.

Leaking of classified material is a concern.

I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.

There was a second problem that was still not a technical problem... the project became classified. I couldn't work on it after having gone to all that trouble. I was considered a security risk, so I could not get a clearance.

I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.

Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents.

The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.

The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.

The information I received as a member of the National Security Council, in my capacity as Vice—President, was so confidential that I would lose my right arm before I divulge it to anyone, even to members of my own family…

The secrecy stamp … has been used to withhold information which in 99 ½ percent of the cases would present no danger to national security.

Secretary Clinton was warned repeatedly about her duty to secure classified information and that her unsecure server did not meet that standard.

I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.

I worked with people like Edward Snowden. Well, not people who took stuff home.

Even if information is not marked classified in an email, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it.

Secretary Clinton should be denied access to classified information. Congress must also hold the State Department accountable for fixing the culture of lax handling of classified information.

For the record, in my long career, I've never knowingly exposed classified information in an inappropriate manner.