Domestic Intelligence Quotes

If you look at the history of the FBI, it has become effectively America's political police.

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 United States.

This country, for reasons of history, culture and therefore law, has had an allergy to domestic intelligence.

Before 9/11 there were weak procedures, willingness, and mechanisms for communicating among agencies for foreign intelligence and the FBI with its focus on law enforcement. The domestic-vs.-foreign barrier has been solved by the reforms after 9/11 that established the DNI.

Domestic intelligence activity has threatened and undermined the Constitutional rights of Americans to free speech, association and privacy. It has done so primarily because the Constitutional system for checking abuse of power has not been applied.

The National Security Agency vacuums up information about virtually every telephone call to, from or within the United States.

I favor an aggressive expansion of America's intelligence capabilities domestically and around the world.

We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world.