I excelled in finding and acquiring secret information that I obtained in brush passes, dead drops, or in meetings in dusty alleys of third world capitals.
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Experience is a good teacher.
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We must constantly learn, adjust, improve, and strive to be better.
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I don't believe that torture works.
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Intelligence services all over the world, in order to retain their competitive edge, have to adapt or they won't survive.
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We got valuable information from debriefing of Al Qaeda detainees, and I don't think it's knowable whether interrogation techniques played a role in that.
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People often ask CIA Directors what keeps them up at night. Between rogue WMD programs, cyber threats, terrorist organizations, great power rivalries, and other global threats, there's bound to be more than a single reason I'm losing sleep on any given night.
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Within the Intelligence Community, CIA is the keeper of the human intelligence mission. Technical forms of collection are vital, but a good human source is unique and can deliver decisive intelligence on our adversaries' secrets - even their intent.
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The first boots on the ground in Afghanistan were my colleagues.