Contribution Quote by Cofer Black

As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to…

— Cofer Black

Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.

— Cofer Black

We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.

— Cofer Black

The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into…

— Cofer Black

Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure…

— Cofer Black

The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that's not…

— Cofer Black

The United States government does not negotiate with terrorists.

— Cofer Black

No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will…

— Cofer Black

We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us…

— Cofer Black

We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy…

— Cofer Black

Cyber will be part of any future conflict -- whether it's a nation state or terrorism,

— Cofer Black

I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.

— Cofer Black