Dmitri Alperovitch Quotes

The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.

It's sad to think right now, but probably the Russian and Chinese government know more about Hillary Clinton's e-mail server than do the members of the United States Congress. And - and that has put our national security at risk.

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.

Homeland security is a problem. It's a good idea, but it's a problem because the man who runs it is Tom Ridge, and he is someone who has the leadership qualities of a gerbil.

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

Nixon railed against the CIA and their lousy intelligence.

One thing about cyberattacks is that what works on Monday may not work on Thursday.

There's still a lot of things you can legitimately do to make America safe through electronic surveillance.

Every day, we learn of more cyber attacks in our nation and around the world. In the United States, these attacks have the potential to destroy our military and economic security and, perhaps, impact the process we use to elect our leaders.

There's a huge impact on national security and intelligence. The new normal is going to be more and more of these hacks, whether it's Target or Home Depot or the Office of Personnel Management or Jennifer Lawrence's nude photos.

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.

Unfortunately, the state of national security under the Trump administration is far from strong.

There's always some potential vulnerabilities in any system.

There is no world of absolute, complete privacy or a world of complete national security.

We've shown that when an attack does happen, our agents and analysts will move heaven and earth to find those responsible.

Our vulnerability to Russia or any other foreign power is directly related to how divided, partisan, dysfunctional our political process is. That's the thing that makes us vulnerable.

TalkTalk was not a highly trusted brand before the cyber attack but customers now say that we looked after them in difficult circumstances.

If the war on terror is endless, you could forget about democracy.

It has been clear for some time now that we have to do more for domestic and external security. I am prepared for that.

We, as a nation, cannot wait for the Pearl Harbor of the information age. We must increase our vigilance to tackle this problem before we are hit with a surprise attack.

Security lies in our ability to produce.

America is facing some major threats. Cyber warfare, Islamic terror and Russia, does it sound terrible? It sounds like the end of the world.

Security used to be an inconvenience sometimes, but now it's a necessity all the time.

US intelligence agencies will only use such data to meet specific security requirements: counterintelligence, counterterrorism, counterproliferation, cybersecurity, force protection for our troops and allies, and combating transnational crime, including sanctions evasion.

Hillary Clinton's policies unleashed ISIS, spread terrorism and put Iran on a path to nuclear weapons.