Intelligence Activities Quotes

Governmental officials -- including those whose principal duty is to enforce the law --have violated or ignored the law over long periods of time and have advocated and defended their right to break the law. The Constitutional system of checks and balances has not adequately controlled intelligence activities

Every intelligence operation carries risks.

Ensuring that the intelligence community adheres to its responsibilities to report on its activities to Congress is absolutely essential.

The intelligence activities undertaken by the United States government are lawful, necessary and required to protect Americans from terrorist attacks.

The activities that went on at Camp King between 1946 and the late 1950s have never been fully accounted for by either the Department of Defense or the CIA.

We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.

As I have said in the past, revealing specific targets or successes of U.S. intelligence activities is not in the public interest.

I'm painted as this war profiteer by Congress. Meanwhile I'm paying for all sorts of intelligence activities to support American national security, out of my own pocket.

Since other countries and terrorist organizations are working to secure information that could threaten national security, more funding is provided in the bill to increase counter-intelligence activities.