Agency Quote by Curt Weldon

The one thing I was always told is you absolutely have to tell truth to power. Whether you're a second lieutenant working with a…

— John F. Kelly

The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the…

— George Tenet

When you have power you don't have to tell the truth. That's a rule that's been working in this world for generations. And there…

— Dean Burk

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

— Carl von Clausewitz

In war, the truth must be guarded by a body guard of lies.

— Winston Churchill

Truth is suppressed, not to protect the country from enemy agents but to protect the Government of the day against the people.

— Roy Hattersley

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

— Groucho Marx

“The truth was, neither the Central Intelligence Agency nor any of the other official and unofficial U.S. intelligence organizations have ever been some kind…

— Max Brooks

It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.

— Ben Bradlee

They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.

— Gerald Massey

So it's not a matter of the military lying to the press, but it's the job of the military to deny the press any…

— David Hackworth

They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military…

— Ozzy Osbourne