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WhatsApp has over a billion customers, and they are overwhelmingly good people. But in that billion customers are terrorists and criminals... It's a huge feature of terrorist tradecraft.
James Comey
Good
People
Good People
Criminals
Feature
Over
Terrorist
Terrorists
Huge
WhatsApp
Customers
Billion
FBI Miami is one of the top five offices. Not only are they responsible for all the work that goes on here in South Florida, but they are one of my international offices, so they cover kidnappings or counterintelligence matters or counterterrorism matters in the whole hemisphere.
James Comey
Work
Matters
Top
Responsible
Only
Counterintelligence
Counterterrorism
Cover
South
South Florida
Miami
Five
Offices
Goes
International
Whole
Hemisphere
Florida
Here
I worry a bit about the unknowns when it comes to travelers to the war zones in Syria and Iraq. Who don't I see? And I worry about the people who may be in their basements radicalizing that I can't see.
James Comey
War
People
Unknowns
Worry
Bit
Syria
See
About
Iraq
May
Who
Travelers
Zone
Serious debates are taking place about how law enforcement personnel relate to the communities they serve, about the appropriate use of force.
James Comey
Law
Relate
Appropriate
Law Enforcement
About
Taking
Force
How
Debates
Place
Personnel
Enforcement
Use
Communities
Serious
Serve
I'm a big fan of the rule of law.
James Comey
Law
Big
Rule
Rule Of Law
Big Fan
Fan
I see the government operating the way the founders intended.
James Comey
Government
Way
See
Operating
Intended
Founders
A similar revolving fund could be set up for Germany, for a durable peace can rest only upon a Germany that, while militarily impotent, is industrially active.
James Forrestal
Peace
Rest
Active
Similar
Only
Could
Industrially
Up
Germany
Durable
Revolving
While
Fund
Set
By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.
James Forrestal
Leadership
World
Country
Build
Economic
Attack
Outstanding
Wage
Providing
Successfully
Thereby
Peaceful
Peaceful World
Foundations
There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.
James Forrestal
Country
Extraordinarily
Immediate
Threat
Continue
Existence
Serious
Grave
From 1941 to 1945 we won a war by enlisting the whole-hearted support of all our people and all our resources.
James Forrestal
War
People
Our
Resources
Our People
Support
Won
It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared.
James Forrestal
War
World
Remember
Willing
Would
Would-Be
Runs
Unprepared
Russia
Seemed
No Reason
Take
He
Practically
Always
Did
Reason
Who
Gang
Even
Inconceivable
Start
Started
Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.
James Forrestal
World
Poison
Aims
Has-Been
Russia
Russian
Fact
Moreover
Simplified
Practical
Been
Accomplishment
Greatly
Antidote
Offered
A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
James H. Boren
Together
Husband And Wife
Wife
Will
Husband
Back
Dress
Up
Bring
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
James H. Boren
Leader
Look
His
Up
Hard
Ground
Who
Keeps
Ear
American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism.
James Woolsey
War
Terrorism
Commitment
Corn
Top
More
Making
American
Against
Ethanol
Farmers
Spear
Grow
As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous.
James Woolsey
People
Will
Nervous
Think
East
Toward
Over
New
Come
Make
Years
Lot
Very
Decades
Move
Middle
Middle East
Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well.
James Woolsey
You
Election
Bet
Follows
Supreme
Well
Supreme Court
Returns
Court
Does
Bureaucracy
Just
We've got jihadists. That doesn't mean that all Muslims are problems with respect to terrorism, but there is something going on here. We've got a problem dealing with one aspect of one portion of modern Islam - just as hundreds of years ago the world had a problem with Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition.
James Woolsey
Terrorism
Respect
Problem
World
Problems
Islam
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
One Aspect
Inquisition
Muslims
Something
Had
Dealing
Got
Years
Years Ago
Modern
Going
Just
Spanish
Mean
Aspect
Portion
Here
If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that.
James Woolsey
Government
You
Plant
Trouble
Big
Own
Everyone
Out
About
Never
Leak
Knows
Because
Chemical
Does
How
Coming
Anything
Little
Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.
James Woolsey
Ways
Direct
Indirect
Suppliers
Countries
Huge
Effectively
Oil
Paid
We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.
Jan Egeland
Daily
Rights
People
Own
Human Rights
Our
Darfur
Civilian
Atrocities
Reports
Human
Against
Ground
Population
Now
Daily Basis
Grave
Receive
Violations
Widespread
Basis
We are also assisting the refugees who have fled across the border to Chad. As many of them have been subject to attacks by militia crossing from Sudan, UNHCR is mounting a major logistical operation to establish camps and transfer refugees away from the border zone.
Jan Egeland
Border
Logistical
Crossing
Attacks
Major
Also
Operation
Been
Subject
Camps
Mounting
Refugees
Establish
Transfer
Them
Across
Who
Chad
Many
Sudan
Militia
Away
Zone
Assisting
Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire.
Jan Egeland
Today
Conflict
Finally
Statement
Crisis
Darfur
Security
Security Council
About
Civilians
Council
Reach
Parties
Massive
Protect
Concern
Calling
Am
Encouraged
Note
Expressing
Humanitarian
It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution.
Jan Egeland
Time
Conflict
Problem
Hide
Political
Old
Fighting
Every
Other
Every Time
Meet
Only
Fact
Leaders
Learn
Practices
How
Political Leaders
Stop
Themselves
Each
Peaceful
Here
Resolution
Our assistance in Somalia has been remarkably effective and successful, and we have helped with very small resources - a large group of people and we can now do even more.
Jan Egeland
People
Group
Our
Resources
Has-Been
Somalia
More
Small
Remarkably
Been
Effective
Very
Successful
Helped
Large
Large Group
Even
Now
Assistance
I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance efforts.
Jan Egeland
Build
Scale
Relief
Emergency
Alliance
Partners
Been
Very
Efforts
Working
Hard
International
Coordinator
Assistance
Wider
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