Presidents get to decide how their intelligence is served up to them, and it's the job of intelligence to adjust.

I was an intelligence officer for what was then 8th Air Force, B-52 Air Force.

There is no worse place for an intelligence service like CIA to be than on Page 1, above the fold in your daily newspaper.

If we are going to conduct espionage in the future, we are going to have to make some changes in the relationship between the intelligence community and the public it serves.

An intelligence analyst may attribute an attack to al Qaeda, whereas a policy maker could opt for the more general 'extremist.'

I believe we do have a great intelligence service. Is it good enough in all circumstances? Of course not. We live in the human condition. We try to make it better each day.

I have spent my adult life working in American intelligence. It has been quite an honor. Generally well resourced. A global mission. No want of issues. And it was a hell of a ride.

The FISA Amendment Act of 2008 actually allows some of the things we were doing under the president's authority only against al Qaeda, it allows them for all legitimate foreign intelligence purposes.

President Obama and his successors are dependent on the 100, 000-plus people inside the American intelligence community - the people Edward Snowden betrayed.

Americans are very practical folks. Accustomed to hard choices in their own lives, they are willing to give us in intelligence a lot of slack as we make the hard choices our profession demands.

It's good to remind intelligence producers and consumers alike about the need to 'warn of emerging conditions, trends, threats and opportunities' and the potential for discontinuities.

A desperate man does what he has to to.”

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...

Could K. represent the congregation all by himself? What if he had been a stranger merely visiting the church? That was more or less his position.

Get somebody else for Jesus Christ and you will get a new vision of life, a new vision of what it means.

I guess anyone with a beautiful body, man or woman, loves to be looked at, but to admit such a thing is a little rough at times. That's why it's hard to get people to pose.

I feel the most pulled together when I'm going for the tomboyish thing.

There are a few absolute no-brainer rules in my world. Real close to the top of this list is: if an Unseelie prince runs from it, I'm going to run from it, too. [said Dani]

I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.

Dirty, stained, withered, broken things seem beautiful to me.