Singling out these individuals would send the wrong message to our junior officers about taking risks,
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In the intelligence community, everyone does his job and you don't share the information unless there is a need to know. This could be a case where the right compartments didn't talk to each other.
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Having watched the pride of some countries in acquiring the world-stage status of having nuclear weapons -- and what that has meant for nationalism and leadership ... it becomes almost a piece of the holy grail for a small country that otherwise might be victimized living in a dangerous neighborhood,
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They very definitely would like to find out all our secrets so they could copy them and take advantage of them, either in terms of their national security, the modernization of the army -- the PLA -- or in terms of competition in the marketplace,
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The bottom line is, I want you to continue to do what you do best - provide our country with close-in access to the plans and intentions of its enemies and provide decision makers with the information they need to make the tough decisions.
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Dysfunctional organizations do not take down or eliminate the most dangerous proliferators in the world ... nor do they aid in the disarmament of a country like Libya.
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