Acclaim Quote by Medea Benjamin

There's been a coup, have you heard? It's the CIA coup. The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They're the ones who are…

— Ron Paul

The CIA has transformed from an organization created to recruit spies to steal secrets, into a paramilitary organization, a paramilitary force. It's not supposed…

— John Kiriakou

There is a real attempt to sanitize the CIA killings and to glorify the CIA and to give it a new face. That's what…

— Medea Benjamin

I can understand the idea that there is a conspiracy. In fact, in much of the world there is a sense of an ultra-powerful…

— Noam Chomsky

For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational…

— Harry S. Truman

In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running…

— Noam Chomsky

A political decision has been made not to irritate the intelligence community. The spy agencies are really embarrassed, they're really sore - the revelations…

— Edward Snowden

Let's remember, the CIA's job is to go out and create wars.

— Jesse Ventura

Everything the CIA does is deniable. It's part of its Congressional mandate. Congress doesn't want to be held accountable for the criminal things the…

— Douglas Valentine

Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take…

— Leon Panetta

It's much different today than it was during the Cold War. The CIA is not the subject of many books anymore. But that might…

— Nelson DeMille

From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

— Barry Eisler