Threat Analysis Quotes

When I was director of public prosecutions, from 2008 to 2013, I had a first-rate counter-terrorism team, who worked closely with the police and the security and intelligence services to defeat and disrupt terrorism.

Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.

We're told another large-scale terrorist attack is inevitable by those people who have committed so many resources to preventing it. They likely know what they're talking about.

The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target.

The military has to think in terms of worst case scenarios. In a sense, they have to play the pessimist.

Simply stated, the need for accurate intelligence and prescient analysis from CIA has never been greater than it is in 2013 - or than it will be in the coming years.

If we have intelligence on the location of terrorist training centers, it is insane not to act.

The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.

Our intelligence community was extremely poorly prepared before 9/11.

The threats against me are not only in Holland, but outside the country as well. We are talking about very serious threats on the part of different terror groups, and when you are aware of the extent of the threats, it's only human to think that something will indeed happen.

The intelligence community, not wanting to be caught napping, tends to over-warn rather than under-warn.

Whether it's at a concert in France or a restaurant in the United States, terrorism doesn't have to happen in a military installation by any stretch of the imagination.

Producers are so much better-educated in issues related to terrorism.

We live in a world where there are many risks, and it's high time we start taking seriously which ones we should be worried about.

The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

I am committed to ensure that our intelligence community, law enforcement, medical professionals, and military have the information and funding needed to protect the American people from threats at home and abroad.

While the CDC is focusing on how our enemies could attack us, our military is focused on who may attack us.

We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change.

One of the amazing things about September 11 is that we lacked the imagination to connect the dots and foresee it.

The laws for the control of terrorists were framed at a time when the terrorists did not have the technology available to them today…. There is a case for re-examining those laws.

And so every one of us in the FBI, I don't care if it's a file clerk someplace or an agent there or a computer specialist, understands that our main mission is to protect the public from another September 11, another terrorist attack.

The American people should be informed about what kind of capability terrorists have inside the United States. They should be informed of why we are not using information to do a more effective job of dealing with terrorists.

Millions of statements are made about the president every day on every subject and from every standpoint; threats of violence are not an integral feature of any one subject or viewpoint as distinct from others. Differential treatment of threats against the president, then, selects nothing but special risks, not special messages.

The chief threats to security come from failed states.

It is necessary secretly ---and urgently---to prepare for terror. And on Tuesday we will decide whether it will be through the SNK or otherwise