Community Quote by Valerie Plame

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel…

— Gloria Naylor

People in charge of intelligence are political as well.

— Rick Santelli

I don't think the intelligence community itself institutionally is losing its focus; it will continue to do its job; continue to be vigilant on…

— James R. Clapper

The U.S. intelligence community is in a very poor position to be trusted with protecting civil liberties while engaging in intelligence work.

— Chelsea Manning

Typically, people in the intelligence community are just going to kind of hunker down and do their job, do their mission. And I believe…

— James Clapper

It's funny that some of the people who complain the most about intelligence being politicized are the ones politicizing the intelligence.

— John Ratcliffe

Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.

— Mike Rogers

In order to do vigorous oversight, the leadership of the intelligence community has got to be straight with the American people and straight with…

— Ron Wyden

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't…

— Aldrich Ames

Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.

— Margaret Halsey

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence…

— Paul Bremer

It is not the intelligence community's place to set and implement policy.

— James Clapper