Accomplished Quote by J. Edgar Hoover

The actions that we take on the counterterrorism front, again, are to take actions against individuals where we believe that the intelligence base is…

— John O. Brennan

Rather than trying to find evidence of a crime, the FBI's counterintelligence goal is to identify, monitor and neutralize foreign intelligence activity in the…

— Asha Rangappa

“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

Counterintelligence is, in effect, chasing ghosts, which is why the tools used to investigate foreign intelligence activity are secret, like human sources or electronic…

— Asha Rangappa

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

The way the United States intelligence community operates is it doesn't limit itself to the protection of the homeland. It doesn't limit itself to…

— Edward Snowden

The government would assert that individuals who are aware of serious wrongdoing in the intelligence community should bring their concerns to the people most…

— Edward Snowden

It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has…

— Douglas Hofstadter

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

We must dedicate our efforts to preventing terrorist attacks whether biological, conventional or unconventional by gathering intelligence and stopping events before they occur.

— Anonymous

We must remain mindful of the potential impact of over-correcting the authorizations of the intelligence community.

— James R. Clapper

One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security…

— John Poindexter