Everything Quote by Asha Rangappa

As a former F.B.I. special agent who conducted counterintelligence investigations, I can attest that foreign intelligence services do not operate on the basis of…

— Asha Rangappa

Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies.

— David Ignatius

Rather than trying to find evidence of a crime, the FBI's counterintelligence goal is to identify, monitor and neutralize foreign intelligence activity in the…

— Asha Rangappa

Sometimes, the intelligence community does legal collection against a legitimate foreign intelligence target and that target interacts with U.S. persons, against whom our people…

— Benjamin Wittes

Exposing the activities of a foreign intelligence service renders them ineffective, since it removes plausible deniability, which is the hallmark of covert intelligence operations.

— Asha Rangappa

U.S. intelligence has the legal right to monitor foreign communications as they go through to U.S. service providers. However, even though something is legal…

— Mikko Hypponen

There is a huge difference between gathering intelligence in foreign countries, even our allies, and secretly getting information on U.S. citizens.

— Bob Beckel

It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate.

— Rand Paul

I know firsthand from my experience working counterintelligence investigations for the FBI that kicking a diplomat out of the country is no small thing.

— Asha Rangappa

As a former FBI counterintelligence agent who investigated foreign propaganda cases, I've seen firsthand how foreign intelligence services leverage American freedoms - and the…

— Asha Rangappa

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time…

— Edward Snowden

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.

— John O. Brennan