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Nothing is more important to national security and the making and conduct of good policy than timely, accurate, and relevant intelligence. Nothing is more critical…

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The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson…
All officers of the Intelligence Community, and especially its most senior officer, must conduct themselves in a manner that earns and retains…
High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa'ida organization…
The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information…
I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made…
The bottom line is these techniques have hurt our image around the world, the damage they have done to our interests far…
My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.
I find when you talk with the Chinese on most subjects, they are very practical.
As is often the case when things are complicated, extreme views have superficial appeal. On the one extreme, some see China as…
The use of large-scale military force in volatile regions of underdeveloped countries is difficult to do right, has major unintended consequences and…
I think American interests are served when there are sections of the world that have representative governments, politically open economic systems, and…
Nothing is more important to national security and the making and conduct of good policy than timely, accurate, and relevant intelligence. Nothing…

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