Bin laden Quote by Michael Scheuer

I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level…

— Michael Scheuer

Richard Clarke had plenty of opportunities to tell us in the administration that he thought the war on terrorism was moving in the wrong…

— Condoleezza Rice

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

— Peter Bergen

Improve human intelligence to get Osama bin Laden.

— John McCain

Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do.

— Robert Fisk

According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama…

— Ferdinand Mount

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.

— Richard Perle

I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that the intelligence was genuine.

— Tony Blair

There's this movie, 'Zero Dark Thirty' about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Some have complained that too many 'secrets' were dished out by…

— Michael Hayden

I think the number one public-relations blunder Osama has made is that he lives in a cave-fortress and if there's one thing we've learned…

— David Letterman

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