Adversaries Quote by Annie Jacobsen

What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to…

— Ronald Reagan

We can't spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we?" Warped logic, but okay.

— Gena Showalter

Our adversaries are utilizing espionage campaigns disguised as business interests right next door to U.S. military instillations, which cannot be allowed to stand.

— Ronny Jackson

“Ultimately, beyond diplomatic manipulation and economic gain, a system of ubiquitous spying allows the United States to maintain its grip on the world. When…

— Glenn Greenwald

There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years,…

— Gary Oldman

Both cyber and old-fashioned human-intelligence industrial espionage has occurred for decades without any significant retribution by the United States.

— Robert C. O'Brien

You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.

— Anthony Horowitz

The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left,…

— Frank Church

“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

Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous…

— Richard Armitage

The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern…

— Jeffrey Toobin

The government does not deny it routinely spies to advance American economic advantage, which is part of its broad definition of how it protects…

— David E. Sanger