Dennis C. Blair quotes
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“The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?”
-- Dennis C. BlairSource : "Former US spy chief sees shift toward Asia". Interview with Elizabeth Dickinson, www.csmonitor.com. January 31, 2012.
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“All officers of the Intelligence Community, and especially its most senior officer, must conduct themselves in a manner that earns and retains the public trust. The American people are uncomfortable with government activities that do not take place in the open, subject to public scrutiny and review.”
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“High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa'ida organization that was attacking this country.”
-- Dennis C. BlairSource : "Banned Techniques Yielded ‘High Value Information,’ Memo Says". www.nytimes.com. April 21, 2009.
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“The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means.”
-- Dennis C. BlairSource : "Banned Techniques Yielded ‘High Value Information,’ Memo Says". www.nytimes.com. April 21, 2009.
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“I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think it was pretty for Asia or the world.”
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“Nothing is more important to national security and the making and conduct of good policy than timely, accurate, and relevant intelligence. Nothing is more critical to accurate and relevant intelligence than independent analysis.”
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“My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.”
-- Dennis C. BlairSource : "Ex-DNI rips Obama White House" by Josh Gerstein, www.politico.com. July 29, 2011.
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