Bureaucracy Quote by Robert Baer Download Open image “The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.” — Robert Baer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bureaucracy Cia Incompetent
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible. — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When you're in the CIA, you anticipate the possibility that you'll be betrayed by a foreign government or a source, but you never anticipate… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The US have dealt with Iran. I'm not saying attack it; I'm saying we should have taken it seriously. The Iranian connection to 9/11… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
I don't trust American intelligence. You look at the torture report from the Senate: People inside the CIA are saying that it doesn't work,… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
“On one level, Americans are too distant from the Middle East, too naive to understand its complexities and history. On another, it's the people… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
If you want prisoners to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear – never to see them again… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
The first suicide bombing that entered my consciousness was the Beirut embassy bombing. It was very personal. I'd been in the embassy and I… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should. — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
Did bin Laden act alone, through his own al-Qaida network, in launching the attacks? About that I'm far more certain and emphatic: no. — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
Egypt is the next domino to fall and, as they say, so goes Egypt so goes the Middle East. — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
Bethlehem was God with us, Calvary was God for us, and Pentecost is God in us. — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
Destroying Iraq was the greatest strategic blunder this country has made in its history. Unless we change course, there's every reason to believe the… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as well. — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh loans the… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with the Democratic Party that talks more about - and more loudly about - jobs, and cutting red tape, and bureaucracy,… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Socialism would gather all power to the supreme party and party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil servants no… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
If there's one thing you should know about me it's that I'm utterly unsuited for bureaucracy. I don't know my passwords to anything. I… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
[The Utopia of Rules] should offer a challenge to us all. Should we just accept this bureaucracy as inevitable? Or is there a way… — Gillian Tett Copy Share Image
“Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a direct understanding… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
Trump conducts meetings and actually tries to get something done rather than just have the meeting and rather than just announce a framework and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Uniformity in the common law, consisting of broad principles like the "reasonable person" standard, generally permits adjustment for the circumstances. This type of uniform… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
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