Criminal Investigations Quotes

This is why it’s so hard for women to publicly accuse men of predatory actions. The victims are perceived as dramatizing and self-important. They risk not being believed. Or getting blamed. Or having crimes investigated improperly. Or being called selfish, mendacious. Women suffer automatic credibility deficits when leveling such accusations, while men enjoy “himpathy,” -- the “excessive sympathy sometimes shown toward male perpetrators of sexual violence.

Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

I was appointed United States attorney on September 10, 2001. And I spent the next seven years of my career fighting terrorism and putting terrorists in jail.

It's the quiet little hit that is succeeding totally under the radar, ... NCIS.

God forbid that the defendant should not be allowed the benefit of every advantage he is entitled to by law.

A special prosecutor follows the money and follows the lies.

Our Constitution does not require that all crimes be solved.

The reason the FISA standard is constitutional is that the government is supposed to use FISA surveillance not for criminal investigations but for counterintelligence probes pursued under the president's authority to conduct foreign policy.

I know that on LAPD they have used psychics. They used it on the Hillside strangler case. I'm not sure on the Richard Ramirez case. I can't say one thing or another about it. I've read about it. I really don't have a lot to say about if it works or if it doesn't.

It's not the function of Congress to do criminal investigations.

A lot of the evidence and some of the events you see in LA Justice are loosely based on real-life cases.

The FBI is a field-based law enforcement organization, and the vast majority of our investigations should continue to be worked by our field offices.

We should not burden a sitting president with civil suits, criminal investigations, or criminal prosecutions.

FBI Miami is one of the top five offices. Not only are they responsible for all the work that goes on here in South Florida, but they are one of my international offices, so they cover kidnappings or counterintelligence matters or counterterrorism matters in the whole hemisphere.

I was a prosecutor and an FBI agent for many, many years.

Suppose someone is overheard in a restaurant saying that he wants to blow something up. And someone tells us about it. What should we do? Don't we need to find out if he was serious? Or was he drunk? The way to do that is to have someone engage him in an undercover way, not show up with a badge and say, 'What are your thoughts in regard to terrorism?’ Plenty of times it's a wing nut or some drunk, and we drop it.

As a young prosecutor, I used the Bureau of Criminal Investigation extensively. I saw that there were problems with BCI. Frankly, I thought I could fix them. I thought if I was successful, I could really make a difference as attorney general.

I don't like things about serial killers. There's so much serial killer information out there in documentaries constantly. A lot of it's just sort of gratuitous or it's almost like pornographic, really. There's no reason for it being shown.

Cities vary widely in the use of DNA testing.

Like civil suits, criminal investigations take the president's focus away from his or her responsibilities to the people.

Having served as both attorney general and deputy attorney general in the Justice Department, I had responsibility for supervising the FBI, working on virtually a daily basis with its senior leadership.

The firing of FBI Director James Comey was the biggest mistake in modern political history.

Well, the clues are there. They always are. Which is why when crimes are solved decades after the fact, it's obvious that the clues had always been right in front of them. A traffic ticket in Brooklyn is how they got ["Son of Sam" serial killer] David Berkowitz. You've just got to look.