Michael Scheuer Quotes
You do the best you can … if you make a mistake, you make a mistake.
“Rendition” is the name for arresting or kidnapping suspected terrorists and sending them to countries in the Middle East where the rules against torture are weak or non-existent.
Michael Scheuer, CIA Head of Counter-Terrorism, Response to question of what happens if the “rendition” is of the wrong man, Interview, CBS Sixty Minutes, July 24, 2005
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Michael F. Scheuer (born 1952) is an American former intelligence officer for the Central Intelligence Agency, blogger, author, commentator and former adjunct professor at Georgetown University's Center for Peace and Security Studies. One assignment during his 22-year career was serving as Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station (the Osama bin Laden tracking unit at the Counterterrorism Center, known as "Alec Station") from 1996 to 1999. He also served as Special Advisor to the Chief of Alec Station from September 2001 to November 2004.