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" Andrew Warren was a rarity in the CIA's Clandestine Service - African-American, fluent in Arabic, and relatively young for an agent who'd already spent nearly a decade chasing terrorists in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq and Algeria, so deep undercover that few of his friends or family knew the nature of his work. "

" As for the like of Hillary Clinton, I - you know, I've covered Secretary of State Clinton before. I covered her during her campaign. And she's a very likable and charismatic person once you get the chance to spend any time close to her. "

" As the CIA tried to find itself, the threat of international terrorism emanating from the Middle East, Africa, North Africa and Central and Southeast Asia grew with each strike: the first World Trade Center attack in 1993, the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, and the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole. "

" By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained. "

" Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory. "

" Despite the absurdity and the silliness and the triviality of the entire campaign experience, there is also something, as non-cynical as this sounds, kind of uplifting and strange about watching democracy unfold. "

" During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the military conducted only a handful of drone missions. "

" For me, when I go in to write a profile, and no ground rules are laid down, and I'm there to write an on-the-record profile and cover readings while in the room, then that means it's on the record. "

" General David Petraeus was so successful at getting on covers of magazines, having journalists fall in love with him, that in fact he was able to use that power to go around the normal chain of command. "

" General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of 'Rolling Stone.' "

" If Bill O'Reilly is calling you a far-left critic, in my book, no matter what your political persuasion is, that's probably - that probably means you're doing a good job. "

" If someone tells you something is off the record, I don't print it. If they don't tell me something is off the record, then it's fair game. "

" I have to admit that the empty prestige and the stupid glory - yes, the horrible rush, the deadly sense of importance that war brings to life - are hard illusions to shake off. Look at me, a war correspondent. "

" In campaign reporting more than any other kind of press coverage, reporters aren't just covering a story, they're a part of it - influencing outcomes, setting expectations, framing candidates - and despite what they tell themselves, it's impossible to both be a part of the action and report on it objectively. "

" In late 2009, I returned to Baghdad after a lengthy absence. I was living alone, in the Hamra Hotel, the twice bombed-out de facto international news bureau. "

" I think it's very difficult to make people care about natives in another country. "

" I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy. "

" I thought Gen. McChrystal was unfireable, that his position was secure. "

" It's never a good thing to see a government agency talk in secret about the need to 'control protestors' - especially when that agency is charged with protecting the homeland against terrorists, not nonviolent demonstrators exercising their First Amendment rights to peaceable dissent. "

" It was either write or die for me. "

" I've been in this business now for almost ten years. I've done a lot of stories. I have a pretty good track record. "

" I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation. "

" I welcome all interviews with 'Rolling Stone' magazine, and I'm sure people will talk to me in the future. "

" I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising. "

" I write for fun. I had written a kind of media satire, but I doubt it will see the light of day. It was just a personal project. "

" My younger brother is a decorated combat veteran and was a platoon leader in Iraq. "

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" Obama's drone program, in fact, amounts to the largest unmanned aerial offensive ever conducted in military history: never have so few killed so many by remote control. "

" Obama's people will all often complain about how trivial and silly the media is, but there's no president who's probably benefited from this sort of trivialness or superficial nature as President Obama. "

" The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress. "

" The first time I met President Obama was 2006 in Baghdad. He was the senator from Illinois; it was a month before he actually ended up declaring. He had to come to Baghdad to kind of check that box, and I was the correspondent for 'Newsweek' at the time. "

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