Accomplish Quote by Cofer Black

Credible reporting indicates that Al Qaeda is moving forward with its plans to carry out a large-scale attack in the United States in an…

— Tom Ridge

That's Al Qaeda's new plan: to destroy America one period at a time.

— Chelsea Handler

Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

Al Qaeda will always focus on us, the United States. And they will take advantage of any situation.

— Dutch Ruppersberger

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

An intelligence analyst may attribute an attack to al Qaeda, whereas a policy maker could opt for the more general 'extremist.'

— Michael Hayden

Al Qaeda operates by launching surprise attacks on civilian targets with the goal of massive casualties. Our only means for preventing future attacks, which…

— John Yoo

Any American who joins al Qaeda will know full well that they have joined an organization that is at war with the United States.…

— John O. Brennan

But one thing that we have done in the last four years is we have really put pressure on the leadership of this organization…

— Michael Chertoff

In short, the hunt for bin Laden could not have been accomplished without every form of American intelligence-gathering.

— Peter Bergen

I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks…

— Jim Ramstad

Al Qaeda has significance beyond its numbers, frankly. And so for us, our 24-hour-a-day objective is to seek out those al Qaeda cells. And,…

— John R. Allen