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Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New Yorks World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying. – Marilyn vos Savant

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Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and its important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what were doing. – Leon Panetta

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It doesnt matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who cant speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community. – Seymour Hersh

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