I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker. – Cofer Black
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
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
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
You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends portraits hang and look thereon Irelands history in their lineaments trace think where mans glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends. – William Butler Yeats