This agency does not do torture. Torture does not work, |
This agency does not do torture. Torture does not work. We use lawful capabilities to collect vital information, and we do it in a variety of unique and innovative ways, all of which are legal and none of which are torture. |
This conference report illustrates how working together can benefit all Americans, both taxpayers and those who depend on federal programs. This debate is not about winning or losing. It is about treating American taxpayers fairly. |
This has nothing to do whatsoever with treatment of prisoners ... I'm not interested in any of that. |
This is just extremely important and it's going to lead to other very successful activities very shortly, I'm sure. |
This is the equivalent of the liberation of Paris in the Second World War, |
This was long overdue, because as the last DCI, I can say that the job had become frankly too big for one person, |
To be cut out at the eleventh hour is annoying, and it's certainly not helpful, |
Unilateral operations will return to be part of the governing paradigm for the CIA, |
we are a superpower, but we're not an aggressive superpower. |
We are definitely going to be using new cover arrangements overseas, because we have to, |
We are developing new and creative ways to get more and more of our officers out of Washington, |
We are developing new and creative ways to get more and more of our officers out of Washington. We do not serve our policy-makers if we are not in the places that they need us to be today and are not reporting from places they don't expect us to be -- but where they may need us to be tomorrow. |
We are going to be in places people can't even imagine, |
we are maybe at the 5 or 10% level. |