James Bruce Quotes
The U. S. press has become a major source of unauthorized intelligence information. Classified information disclosed in the press is the equivalent of information obtained by enemy espionage.
James Bruce, CIA Operative & Member of the National Intelligence Council, Speech, American Bar Association Conference on National Security law, November 22, 2002
Sourced by: Eigen's Political and Historical Quotations
The George W. Bush Administration had initiated a secret wiretapping program without informing the Congressional Intelligence Committees as required by the statute or requesting a change in the law from the Judiciary Committee. New York Times, however, had discovered the program and published its existence. This was the way that Congress found out about the program that seemed to violate the law. The Attorney General however was critical of New York Times, and expressed concern that the press had published secret material.
There are many things about our enemies which they know that we know which are still kept classified because it would be embarrassing for the government, a previous administration or to an agency to reveal it. There are some documents that are classified even thought the enemy knows we have the information because if the document were released the enemy might find out the sources of the information which they do not know. However often they know that too. Potential embarrassment and scandal are the main reasons for keepingthings that the enemy knoews we know secret.
When Bob Casey was the CIA Director, he the declassification of all the operational files of the WWII Office of Strategic Service. The huge collection is referred to as Record Book 2.6
Wikileaks needs whistleblowers to send it confidential and secret material in order to have something that people might be interested in. And then, it needs continuous money donations to keep the website going. This statement refuted critics who claimed that Assange and his colleagues were just criminal activists who had no public support or interest in what they were doing.
He was commenting on the new Donald Trump's attacks onthe media.
The George W. Bush administration used secrecy and classification to an extreme that few previous administrations ever had in modern times.
Agree resigned from the CIA in protest to its political position.
James Bruce of Kinnaird was a Scottish traveller and travel writer who spent more than a dozen years in North Africa and Ethiopia, to which it was wrongly attributed to be the first European to trace the origins of the Blue Nile.
