William Hedgcock Webster Quotes
The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.
These appear in much of her correspondence to Dee. In acknowledgement of the second, Dee signed his letters and reports to the Queen with two zeros (representing his eyes) and the numeral 7 which at the time in numerology was the number of mystery. Many believe that the James Bond moniker of ‘007’ derives from England’s original great secret agent and superspy who the queen would allow almost anything.
This seemingly abstruse philosophical statement actually found its way into one of the major political debates of the 21st Century when the Secretary of Defense was defending the management of the Iraq War and the interpretation of intelligence. See {586062}.
Referring to President William McKinley who was extremely sensitive to public opinion:
William Hedgcock Webster is an American attorney and jurist who most recently served as chair of the Homeland Security Advisory Council from 2005 until 2020. He was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit before becoming Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1978 to 1987 and Director of Central Intelligence (CIA) from 1987 to 1991. He is the only person to have held both positions.
