Cofer Black Quotes (19 Quotes)

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.

We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.

The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none.

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.

We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us and our allies.

Terrorists have concluded, with the help of many others, that there may be a relationship between a terrorist action and an election in a democracy,

Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.

I've heard people say this country wasn't at war. I want to tell you, Mr. Chairman ... we conducted ourselves at war ... We did the best we could under the law and with the resources provided and under our defined rules of engagement.

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

unprecedented collaboration between the United States and foreign partners to defeat terrorism.

We have 18 more total events, five more significant events and 13 more nonsignificant events than originally reported. These new figures are accompanied by a dramatic increase in the numbers of casualties originally calculated.

These groups may decide that this is a good target date to look toward in all democracies.

First In An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan

As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism.

The United States government does not negotiate with terrorists,

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.

a second-tier guy but one who knows things.

The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that's not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence.

No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise to take their place.