Brandon Webb Quotes

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.

Leaking of classified material is a concern.

Penetrating a company's security often starts with the bad guy obtaining some piece of information that seems so innocent, so everyday and unimportant, that most people in the organization don't see any reason why the item should be protected and restricted.

When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.

What good does it do to spend millions to protect ourselves against espionage if our secrets just leak away.

I had never seen a trace of a threat to the national security from the publication.

A leak is an unauthorized disclosure of classified or sensitive information that is improper under any circumstance.

White House leaks of classified information put the lives of U.S. service members, intelligence officers, and civilians at risk. That's why I support a measure passed by the Senate Intelligence Committee to crack down on such leaks.

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

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.

Edward Snowden may not be a Chinese mole, but he might as well be. He's just handed Beijing a major score, while the NSA struggles to pick up the pieces - and the rest of us pay the price in terms of future national security.

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

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.

We should be adult enough to understand that major countries are going to be spying on us.

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

I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.

I can't take classified information that I get as a senator and give it to someone with no consequence.

The hospital room of a cabinet official is exactly the type of target ripe for surveillance by a foreign power.

Everybody has a hacking capability. And probably every intelligence service is hacking in the territory of other countries. But who exactly does what? That would be a very sensitive piece of information. But it's very difficult to communicate about it. Because nobody wants to admit the scope of what they're doing.

It is very important that the director of the Central Intelligence Agency adhere to the same classification guidelines that all employees must adhere to because there are very good reason for those classification guidelines.

We cannot have people leaking classified information at any level, and we certainly take that very seriously and would not ignore that.

There should be an understanding and trust that your privacy and data will be protected.

In the case of someone sharing classified information with foreign intelligence, for example, the FBI could surreptitiously ensure that they are no longer able to obtain sensitive information.

The information hack contains facts discovered by the FBI in doing background checks for people seeking positions with the federal government. It's a treasure trove which can easily be used for blackmail and other reasons by the enemy.