Gathering Quote by Bob Beckel

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

By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work…

— George Tenet

The problem is that I don't think the American people realize how much of our intelligence is actually derived from our partners. If our…

— Andrew Exum

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

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

As I have said in the past, revealing specific targets or successes of U.S. intelligence activities is not in the public interest.

— William Binney

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

— David Ignatius

Europeans don't like to talk about intelligence, and they often pretend their countries don't spy.

— David Ignatius

I think it's important for the president of the United States to be aware of the intelligence information that we have.

— John McCain

“We have seen segments of our Government, in their attitudes and action, adopt tactics unworthy of a democracy, and occasionally reminiscent of totalitarian regimes.…

— Church Committee

What do you do when other countries' intelligence agencies give you information and you aren't entirely certain about its source? Simply ignore it? That's…

— Angela Merkel

I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.

— Al Franken