Accounts Quote by Philip Agee

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 will be the CIA's mission and my own if confirmed to ensure that the agency remains the best in the world at its…

— Mike Pompeo

What's less well known is that the CIA's executive management staff is far more concerned with selecting the right candidates to serve as CIA…

— Douglas Valentine

The National Security Council assists the president by ensuring that he receives the best views and options from the various departments and agencies on…

— Robert C. O'Brien

First of all, CIA follows the law.

— Gina Haspel

There is no part of the executive branch that more exists on the outer edge of executive prerogative than the American intelligence community -…

— Michael Hayden

While the statutory members of the NSC, in some cases, run departments that execute foreign policy, the NSC staff at the White House was…

— Robert C. O'Brien

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

The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget.…

— Leonard Boswell

The National Security Council's real role is to coordinate the various activities of the government of the United States in the furtherance of American…

— Oliver North

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

Every responsible chief in the CIA knows that the more covert the action, the greater the need for a clear policy and a defined…

— Tyler Drumheller