Vincent Cannistraro Quotes (7 Quotes)

His actions by going out to the CIA, attempting to pressure analysts on the subject of weapons of mass destruction, all fall from his conviction that Saddam was an evil person who needed to be replaced by the US.

Her career was arbitrarily and whimsically destroyed by a mean political trick.

Many of these people came from repressive countries and regimes to begin with and had no love for speaking with authorities. The only way you overcome that is by building relationships with the community, and this had the opposite effect.

This was going to be the follow-up to September 11. We weren't looking in south-east Asia. We were looking at the stereotype of Arab Muslims, so yes it showed creativity on their part.

It was a terrible, terrible idea. It was the worst kind of public relations move you could make because it deprives you of access to the people who are first to know. It was horrible. It was paranoia at its worst.

Basically, cooked information is working its way into high-level pronouncements and there's a lot of unhappiness about it in intelligence, especially among analysts at the CIA,

They are politicizing intelligence, no question about it, ... And they are undertaking a campaign to get George Tenet the director of central intelligence fired because they can't get him to say what they want on Iraq.