Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The actions that we take on the counterterrorism front, again, are to take actions against individuals where we believe that the intelligence base is so strong and the nature of the threat is so grave and serious, as well as imminent, that we have no recourse except to take this action that may involve a lethal strike. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
As a former career intelligence professional, I have a profound appreciation for the value of intelligence. Intelligence disrupts terrorist plots and thwarts attacks. Intelligence saves lives. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear? Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>