Actionable Intelligence Quotes

Louis Freeh said on national TV that actionable intelligence could have allowed us to stop the hijackings.

Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.

If we have actionable intelligence about high value terrorist targets and President [Pervez] Musharraf will not act, we will.

We need a president who is going to understand what actionable intelligence looks like and act on it. And we need a president and a cabinet who understands that the first and most important priority of the president of the United States is to protect the safety and security of Americans.

Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.

I do not think that torture is necessary. But it may be the case that interrogation methods that go beyond questioning, but do not arise to the level of torture, may be necessary to get actionable intelligence from high-ranking al Qaeda leaders.

Personally, I do not think that torture is necessary. But it may be the case that interrogation methods that go beyond questioning, but do not arise to the level of torture, may be necessary to get actionable intelligence from high-ranking al Qaeda leaders

I had to make these decisions after 9/11, make a decision about how to proceed forward with an investigation or how to pull back, whether you use certain actionable intelligence or whether not to. And yet they continue to debate about this bill and in the subcommittee and what - nobody in America cares about that.

We… need to recalibrate our expectations for what we access as actionable intelligence. We need to lower that threshold to the appropriate level and we need to have a higher threshold tolerance for pain in the event that we miscalculate or things go wrong or people get caught or something happens.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

It is difficult finding intelligence that is actionable in a lot of these places, but we have to keep trying.

It's a huge competitive advantage to see in real time what's happening with your data.