Accomplish Quote by Peter Bergen

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

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

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

There was a time when a company could not sell its shares to the public unless its revenues were growing and it was turning…

— Daniel Lyons

The CIA is absolutely out of control. The CIA has been on a killing spree... The CIA has become a death squad and to…

— Medea Benjamin

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

If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The CIA was revealed to be spying in France, not for military purposes, but for corporate purposes. So this $30 billion spook agency is…

— Jerry Brown

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

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

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

— Robert Baer

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