Dominic Grieve Quotes

SIS, the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, also has no executive powers and operates abroad on CIA lines, but with a tiny percentage of the budget and a tiny percentage of the personnel.

As a beat reporter covering the CIA and intelligence world after the terrorist attacks of 2001, I could sense that many things I couldn't see or understand were changing, expanding, getting so big they were difficult to manage.

The FBI had more agents in New York than the CIA had agents abroad. [In the 1990s].

A chief of station is the head of all intelligence operations in any given country.

Experts say that Britain and France have strong spy agencies; Germany's is competent but afraid to level with its public; the rest are relatively weak, and there is no Europe-wide spy agency.

I favor an aggressive expansion of America's intelligence capabilities domestically and around the world.

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.

As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise.

I wasn't privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City, because it was very relevant to me, and of course I exchanged what I had with the chief of station in Guatemala City.

Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.

The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.

The United States and Russian security services regularly exchange information.

I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.

In the difficult fight against the new menace of international terrorism, there is nothing more crucial than timely and accurate intelligence

The shadowy world of foreign intelligence-gathering – the American government’s most secret and least accountable enterprise – is now the Bush administration’s main legal weapon in the war on terrorism.

It was given for all purposes to which a secret service fund should or could be applied to the public benefit—for spies, if the gentleman pleases.

[Referring to the CIA:] We coexist. They work, and we work.

For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed.

America’s military defense capability owes more to the Israeli intelligence input than it does to any other single source of intelligence… it’s value is worth more than five CIAs

Nobody [at the CIA] had any idea of who was doing what where

Bureau of Secret Intelligence.

The security [of European national is dependent on the effective intelligence of their neighbors.

I served 10 years on the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, and I had the distinct privilege of meeting with real U.S. spies throughout the globe.