Michael Ledeen Quotes
Even the Intelligence agency has an office of public affairs which may seem like an oxymoron.
Michael Ledeen, Historian, Philosopher, Foreign Policy Analyst], Consultant to the U. S. National Security Council, Department of State, and the Department of Defense, Speech, Intelligence and Free Society Conference, National Forum Foundation, Washington, May 30, 1989
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Cooper was asked to confirm or deny a rumor regarding the President's selection for a vacant post:
When Bob Casey was the CIA Director, he the declassification of all the operational files of the WWII Office of Strategic Service. The huge collection is referred to as Record Book 2.6
Agree resigned from the CIA in protest to its political position.
At the time Jay was engaged in secret counterintelligence operations in upstate New York and some material had been leaked by members of the Congress.
He served Presidents Reagan, Clinton, and both Bushes
about Iraq possessing weapons or mass destruction This is the one of the kind of statements which many felt were prevarications to justify the President’s desire to invade Iraq. See {618461} for an example of the reaction that was generated.
Edward Snowden, a defense contractor and government employee, publicly revealed that the U. S. intelligence agencies were intercepting and keeping a data base of ALL telephone calls and all Internet e-mails. The government had denied that this was so, and had classified the domestic spying program as Top Secret. Snowden had signed an agreement not to reveal any classified information, and he violated the agreement. Therefore the government was trying to extradite Snowden from Russia at the time so that they could criminally prosecute him. However, there was great debate as to whether the spying on all Americans was legal and Constitutional. Many saw Snowden as a “whistleblower” and pointed out that the government which had lied wanted to prosecute Snowden for telling the truth. Fein, an attorney, was representing Snowden and his family.
Casey continuously violated the law and lied to the President and Congress.
The scandals of the past of CIA lies to Congress and the President, mistakes they had made, and a raft of illegal activities, had eroded support for the agency. We still had the NSA and the Military Intelligence Agencies which had not been involved in the CIA scandals.
Michael Arthur Ledeen is an American historian, neoconservative foreign policy analyst, and author with a PhD in philosophy. He is a former consultant to the United States National Security Council, the United States Department of State, and the United States Department of Defense. He held the Freedom Scholar chair at the American Enterprise Institute where he was a scholar for twenty years and now holds the similarly named chair at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
