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,

You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That’s all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your...

at that time that was what we thought.

We discovered the extent of Khan’s hidden network. We tagged the proliferators. We detected the network stretching from Pakistan to Europe to the Middle East to Asia offering its wares to countries like North Korea...

I still lie awake at night thinking about everything that could have been, that wasn’t done to stop 9/11. To the 9/11 families, I said, you deserve better from your entire government. All of us.

this is the largest release of formerly classified CIA documents ever. It reflects my commitment to be as forward-leaning as possible in releasing information that with the passage of time no longer needs to be...