Quotes about Intelligence Transparency

Michael Hayden

When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some tough questions. Among the toughest: In a political culture that every day demands more transparency and more public accountability from every aspect of national life, could American intelligence continue to survive and succeed? That jury is still out.

Maochun Yu

The United States is the only country in the world that has ever released the operations files of its intelligence agency.

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

Noam Chomsky

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won't tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, 'Well, you know: It's secret.'

Juan Manuel Santos

I’m going to abolish the DAS in the next 3 or 4 months. I want to create a new and completely different intelligence agency. By abolishing the DAS we can take away the bad culture that has developed.

In Colombia DAS had hugh responsibilities for many interior functions as well as intelligence. Like the intelligence service of many countries the Colombia DAS developed a culture of torture and other human rights abuses. President Santos realized that the agency had developed and evil, undemocratic culture that most of the citizens feared and distrusted. In many such instances, it is almost impossible to reform such and agency and eliminating it and starting with a new set of people who can develop a new culture.

Dianne Feinstein

It is abundantly clear that a total review of all intelligence programs is necessary so that members of the Senate Intelligence Committee are fully informed as to what is actually being carried out by the intelligence community.

William Hague

I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.

Gina Haspel

Just to talk a moment about transparency, of course CIA does have a Twitter account.

Ron Wyden

There has been a culture of misinformation among the intelligence leadership.

See {634917} for a recent example of lying under oath to the Senate.

Intelligence Transparency Quotes