No one told us what to say or how to say it, … We will always call it as we see it.

raised several concerns about the fragmentary nature of the intelligence with National Security Council colleagues. Some of the language was changed.

… we will neither be completely right nor completely wrong.

one of the most immediate threats the United States is likely to face.

Iran’s success in gaining technology and materials from Russian companies, combined with recent indigenous Iranian advances, means it could have a medium-range missile capability much sooner than I assessed last year.

I am convinced the next major attack against the United States may well be conducted by people with Asian or African faces, not the ones that many Americans are alert to.

and those debates were spelled out in the estimate.

Foreign nations have begun to include information warfare in their war college curricula with respect to both defensive and offensive applications.

the system was blinking red.

His network is now answering to the world for years of nuclear profiteering,

Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days, … But these times demand it because the alternative — politicized, haphazard evaluation without the benefit of time and facts —...

We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period.

We must eradicate these organizations by denying them the source of financing, their sanctuary and eliminating their ability to hijack charitable organizations for terrorist purposes. We must be prepared for a long war, and we...

When I took on this job I had a set of conditions to do it because I was essentially taking on the moral hazard, as I’ve referred to it, for the CIA. That is, it...

I think the declassified answer, is yes, they can do that,