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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Intelligence
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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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Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. – Julian Assange

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