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" ISIL particularly is very slick, very sophisticated, proselytizing and recruiting, and they are very astute users of social media. "
James R. Clapper
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" There is no requirement whatsoever for a security clearance for a candidate. The mere fact that a candidate is anointed by its party at a convention - that is all that is required. And it's not up to me or the administration to determine candidate suitability for these briefings. "
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" When I was commissioned in the Air Force, I was committed to the institution for a career. "
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" Typically, people in the intelligence community are just going to kind of hunker down and do their job, do their mission. And I believe - I have great faith in them. I think they will continue to serve up truth to power even if the power chooses not to listen to the truth. "
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" What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that. "
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" The reason that ISIL was so successful, yes, it had to do with their capabilities and prowess on the battlefield, but they were dealing with a receptive constituency in northern Iraq because of the intense hatred of the Maliki government, which of course is imposing the Shia view on them. "
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" The Russians are bent on establishing both a presence in the Western Hemisphere, and they're looking for opportunities to expand military cooperation: sell equipment, air bases, as well as intelligence gathering facilities. "
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" In the end, we will never, ever be able to guarantee that there will not be an Edward Snowden or another Chelsea Manning because this is a large enterprise composed of human beings with all their idiosyncrasies. "
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End
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" If ISIL were to substantially increase the priority it places on attacking the West rather than fighting to maintain and expand territorial control, then the group's access to radicalized Westerners who have fought in Syria and Iraq would provide a pool of operatives who potentially have access to the United States and other Western countries. "
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" The history of the intelligence community is replete with violations of the trust of the American people. "
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Trust
" I have always accepted intelligence was an honorable profession. We are all mindful of the need to comply with our moral values and the law. "
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Need
Values
" The Russians have a long history of interfering in elections - theirs and other people's. "
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Long
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" Part of our obligation is to ensure that policymakers are provided with the fullest possible picture of any matters that might affect national security. "
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Picture
Matters
Security
" In this job, I've found the less I talk, the better. "
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Found
Talk
Less
" I was a part of the decision-making in the Pentagon, when I was the undersecretary for intelligence, to start CYBERCOM, both as a sub-unified command and under a dual-hat arrangement. That was never intended to be permanent in any event. "
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Start
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" The most pervasive cyber threat to the U.S. financial sector is from cyber criminals. "
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Threat
Financial
" The number one foreign policy goal of Russia is control of the former Soviet space. "
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Space
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" To the extent that anyone has leverage over North Korea, it's China. "
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" The first week in intelligence school, you learn there are only two conditions in life. There is policy success, or there is intel failure. There is no other condition in life. "
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Intelligence
" When the Internet was first - as an experiment and then when it - as it mushroomed, security was never an integral part of what the Internet was designed for. I mean, it just didn't - wasn't a consideration. "
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First
Mean
Never
" The country of Iraq is somewhat of an artificial creation going back to colonial days. And so you have the Kurds and then the Sunnis in the north predominantly and Shias in the south. "
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Then
Creation
Days
" I did get a letter from the speaker of the House urging - enjoining me not to brief Secretary Clinton, and lots of cards and letters from people about not briefing Mr. Trump. "
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" A key player with respect to sanctions is, of course, China. And so, if a military option were to be exercised, then obviously we would play very heavily in that process. But that's not a decision, fortunately, that the intelligence community makes. "
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" The term 'Muslim Brotherhood'... is an umbrella term for a variety of movements: in the case of Egypt, a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried Al Qaeda as a perversion of Islam. "
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" I had served in the Republic of Korea in the early '80s while I was on active duty as a director of intelligence for U.S. forces Korea, and kind of followed developments on the peninsula ever since. "
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