Hoover condemned the proposal for the CIA as nothing but…

“Stellar Wind resurrected Cold War tactics with twenty-first-century technology. It let the FBI work with the NSA outside of the limits of the law.”

— Tim Weiner

“The president and the vice president wanted the FBI to execute searches in secret, avoiding the strictures of the legal and constitutional standards set…

— Tim Weiner

“On December 4, 1998, the headline on the President’s Daily Brief, the most secret intelligence document in the government of the United States, read:…

— Tim Weiner

“Intelligence fails because it is human, no stronger than the power of one mind to understand another. (480)”

— Tim Weiner

“Where were the weapons of mass destruction? he asked. Did they exist at all? They did not, Saddam said. It had been a long-running…

— Tim Weiner

“The other day we hauled in a guy named Abu Zubaydah,” President Bush said at a Republican fund-raiser in Greenwich, Connecticut, on April 9.…

— Tim Weiner

“The attorney general also spelled out some of the authorities the FBI would use under the Patriot Act, which passed the Senate that same…

— Tim Weiner

“Mueller was embroiled in another ferocious argument over the rule of law and the role of the FBI as the interrogation fight festered. Vice…

— Tim Weiner

“In mid-September Soufan talked to an al-Qaeda prisoner named Ramzi Binalshibh, who was chained naked to the floor in a CIA black prison at…

— Tim Weiner

“On June 20, 1951, less than four weeks after the Homer case broke, Hoover escalated the FBI’s Sex Deviates Program. The FBI alerted universities…

— Tim Weiner

“Then, on December 14, 1999, an alert United States Customs agent in Port Angeles, Washington, stopped a nervous twenty-three-year-old Algerian named Ahmed Ressam who…

— Tim Weiner

“On July 6, he gave a speech to newspaper and television executives at the great columned building housing the National Archives and the original…

— Tim Weiner

“The CIA officer at the black site relayed the report to his headquarters. The CIA’s director, George Tenet, was unhappy to learn that the…

— Tim Weiner

“Saddam said he had used the telephone only twice and rarely slept in the same bed two nights running since the first American war…

— Tim Weiner

“[Re: J. Edgar Hoover] His knowledge was enormous, though his mind was narrow.”

— Tim Weiner