Quotes of: Counterterrorism Keyword

Journalists should be watchdogs, not lapdogs.

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness

Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology.

Claire Danes

War is legitimized state-sponsored terrorism in a grand scale.

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness

The U.S., often in secret, carries out counterterrorism missions all the time, with drones in places like Yemen and Somalia.

Richard Engel

Counterterrorism analysts have known for years that al Qaeda prepares for attacks with elaborate 'targeting packages' of photographs and notes.

Barton Gellman

One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.

Michael Scheuer

Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information.

Jim Sensenbrenner

I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the ...

John Poindexter

I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials.

Taylor Wilson

While information is the oxygen of the modern age, disinformation is the carbon monoxide that can poison generations.

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness

An open internet is an open platform for debating opposing views. It allows unpopular voices to be heard.

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness

I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism.

Paul Bremer

I used to have a little saying I used when people said, 'What are your priorities?' I'd give them a bit of government alphabet soup. I'd say 'CTCPROW: Counterterrorism, counterproliferation, rest of the world.'

Michael Hayden

According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.

Ferdinand Mount

Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.

Jim Ramstad

When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American people.

John O. Brennan

Afghanistan remains an opportunity to deal al Qaeda a vital strategic blow, especially since we have abandoned all operations - including counterterrorism operations - in Iraq.

Jack Keane

By the time President Obama took office, Guantanamo was viewed internationally as a symbol of a counterterrorism approach that flouted our laws and strayed from our values, undercutting the perceived legitimacy - and therefore the effectiveness - of ...

John O. Brennan

The U.S. government needs to learn from successful private businesses that run an effective and efficient operation in serving their customers and outwitting their competitors.

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness

If we take a small step in extolling peacemakers as much as honoring war heroes, we will be making a giant leap towards peace.

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness

The two-way street of Total Information Awareness is the road that leads to a more transparent and complete picture of ourselves, our governments, and our world.

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness