Michael McCaul Quotes
You can have the best technology, but if you have an inside job of a worker that has access to the plane that's corrupted or bribed or radicalized, they can get a bomb on that aircraft and blow it up.
McCaul, Michael. Interview by Chris Wallace. Fox News Sunday, Fox Broadcasting Network, 8 Nov. 2015.
On the BBC during World War II:
The woman was kidnapped from her home and shot.
The names cited were the British police and military forces. Fraternization was considered spying and brought death. That year the IRA executed over 100 of their fellow Irishmen, with no trial or chance to defend themselves. Some were scores and personal grudges being settled and others mistakes.
Devine was then the clandestine CIA officer in Chile who sent a secret cable to Washington 3 days before the military coup and the murder relaying the date of the coup and who was involved—see {86577}. Devine claimed he nor other Americans, actually plotted with the Chilean military, however he and others certainly have the "green light" indicating that the United States would have no objection to the coups.
After September 11, the Department of Homeland Security was formed. The new department combined a host of other disparate departments and organizations and one result was that threats and terrorist targets were so broadly defined with a paucity of specific intelligence that almost everything was a target so that nothing could receive more security and protection than anything else.
Traitors and spies were their terms for Southern sympathizers in the Federal Government. Many of these would pass information to the rebels.
At the time, the President thought the accusation about the White House was unlikely and just the accusations of political enemies and he said he would fire anyone who made such a leak. The quote became memorable when it came out that it there were two White House leakers, including the President’s closest political advisor, Karl Rove. Thereafter, the President not only did not fire anyone, but refused to even discuss the matter saying that there were potential criminal proceeding underway.
In 1937 four nationalist army columns were converging on Madrid in the Spanish Civil War. General Mola was asked which column would take Madrid. His reference to the sympathizers inside the city became a universal term for traitors.
George W. Bush. The leak was a felony to which the elder Bush was particularly sensitive as he had served as the CIA Director. The younger Bush did not take aggressive measures to find out which of his staff had provided the unauthorized and classified information to the press.
This is done in modern times. Note that the objective is NOT to arrest or execute the enemy spies but to turn them into what we call “Double Agents.”
This was the directive that gave the CIA authority for its many covert operations.
Michael Thomas McCaul Sr. is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 10th congressional district since 2005. A member of the Republican Party, he served as chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security during the 113th, 114th, and 115th Congresses. His district stretches from Austin to Houston. As of 2018, he was the fifth-wealthiest member of Congress.
