“Stellar Wind resurrected Cold War tactics with twenty-first-century technology. It let the FBI work with the NSA outside of the limits of… — Tim Weiner Cold war Copy Share Image
“The president and the vice president wanted the FBI to execute searches in secret, avoiding the strictures of the legal and constitutional… — Tim Weiner Vice president Copy Share Image
“On December 4, 1998, the headline on the President’s Daily Brief, the most secret intelligence document in the government of the United… — Tim Weiner World trade Copy Share Image
“Intelligence fails because it is human, no stronger than the power of one mind to understand another. (480)” — Tim Weiner Intelligence Copy Share Image
“Where were the weapons of mass destruction? he asked. Did they exist at all? They did not, Saddam said. It had been… — Tim Weiner Telling the truth Copy Share Image
“The other day we hauled in a guy named Abu Zubaydah,” President Bush said at a Republican fund-raiser in Greenwich, Connecticut, on… — Tim Weiner President bush Copy Share Image
“The attorney general also spelled out some of the authorities the FBI would use under the Patriot Act, which passed the Senate… — Tim Weiner Attorney general Copy Share Image
“Mueller was embroiled in another ferocious argument over the rule of law and the role of the FBI as the interrogation fight… — Tim Weiner American military Copy Share Image
“In mid-September Soufan talked to an al-Qaeda prisoner named Ramzi Binalshibh, who was chained naked to the floor in a CIA black… — Tim Weiner Stop talking Copy Share Image
“On June 20, 1951, less than four weeks after the Homer case broke, Hoover escalated the FBI’s Sex Deviates Program. The FBI… — Tim Weiner Five years Copy Share Image
“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… — Tim Weiner Los angeles Copy Share Image
“On July 6, he gave a speech to newspaper and television executives at the great columned building housing the National Archives and… — Tim Weiner Communication Copy Share Image
“The CIA officer at the black site relayed the report to his headquarters. The CIA’s director, George Tenet, was unhappy to learn… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“Saddam said he had used the telephone only twice and rarely slept in the same bed two nights running since the first… — Tim Weiner American war Copy Share Image
“[Re: J. Edgar Hoover] His knowledge was enormous, though his mind was narrow.” — Tim Weiner J edgar hoover Copy Share Image
“Hoover condemned the proposal for the CIA as nothing but the “dreams of visionary but impractical empire-builders.” — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“George Piro, had gathered evidence that al-Qaeda had a network of adherents at American flight schools. Williams urged a nationwide investigation. He… — Tim Weiner Years of experience Copy Share Image
“Stellar Wind blew past the Supreme Court on the authority of a dubious opinion sent to the White House the week that… — Tim Weiner Patriot act Copy Share Image
“The director of the National Security Agency, General Michael V. Hayden, had told tens of thousands of his officers in a video… — Tim Weiner National security Copy Share Image
“The answer was Stellar Wind. The NSA would eavesdrop freely against Americans and aliens in the United States without probable cause or… — Tim Weiner Cold war Copy Share Image
“She also had run Stellar Wind since its inception. Mueller made her his right hand.” — Tim Weiner Right hand Copy Share Image
“The FBI—not for the first time—had produced evidence that undermined a presidency. “No one was more shocked and angry than I,” Bush… — Tim Weiner First time Copy Share Image
“Fitzgerald and the FBI agents who worked with him in New York all knew that Ali Mohamed was working for al-Qaeda. They… — Tim Weiner Bin laden Copy Share Image
“Under Cheney’s direction, the United States moved to restore the powers of secret intelligence that had flourished for fifty-five years under J.… — Tim Weiner Attorney general Copy Share Image
“On August 1, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel granted the CIA’s request to begin water-boarding Abu Zubaydah. The technique, tantamount… — Tim Weiner Attorney general Copy Share Image
