Quote by Cofer Black
I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker. - Cofer Black

I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker. – Cofer Black

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The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish. – Cofer Black

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Intelligence
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We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations. – Cofer Black

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Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations. – Cofer Black

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Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get. – Frank Carlucci

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I can remember when I was National Security Adviser, the intelligence community told us… they put out an intelligence report saying that Iran would never back off from attacks on shipping in the Gulf if we use force. – Frank Carlucci

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It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. – John Steinbeck

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