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Politicization - the shading of analysis to fit prevailing policy or politics - is the harshest criticism one can make of an intelligence organization. It strikes beyond questions of competence to the fundamental ethic of the enterprise, which is, or should be, truth telling.
Michael Hayden
Politics
Truth
Intelligence
Organization
Criticism
Analysis
Strikes
Enterprise
Telling
Shading
Prevailing
Beyond
Make
Policy
Fit
Questions
Which
Ethic
Should
Fundamental
Competence
Dissenting analysts passionate about their positions are not unusual in the American intelligence community. Their presence - or even the rejection - of their favored positions is not prima face evidence of politicization.
Michael Hayden
Intelligence
Face
Intelligence Community
Community
Rejection
Positions
Analyst
Evidence
Favored
About
Prima
Unusual
Passionate
American
Even
Presence
Intelligence collection is not confined to the communications of adversaries or of the guilty. Rather, it's about gaining information otherwise unavailable that would help keep Americans safe and free.
Michael Hayden
Intelligence
Free
Otherwise
Guilty
Collection
Would
About
Rather
Adversaries
Safe
American
Confined
Information
Gaining
Communications
Help
Keep
Presidents get to decide how their intelligence is served up to them, and it's the job of intelligence to adjust.
Michael Hayden
Intelligence
Job
Presidents
Adjust
How
Up
Get
Decide
Them
Served
When the intelligence is making a policymaker too happy, he ought to challenge it, and even if he doesn't, the intelligence briefer needs to launch a red team against his own conclusions to see if he can hold his ground.
Michael Hayden
Needs
Happy
Intelligence
Challenge
Own
Too
Ought
Launch
See
He
Red
Conclusions
Making
His
Hold
Against
Ground
Team
Even
Without - you know, good intelligence stops plots against the homeland. Without that intelligence, we cannot effectively stop it.
Michael McCaul
Good
You
Intelligence
We Cannot
Plots
Know
Without
Effectively
Stop
Stops
Cannot
Against
Homeland
One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.
Michael Scheuer
Great
Intelligence
Intelligence Community
Community
Assume
Someone
Attacked
He
Counterterrorism
Failures
Him
Because
Intellectual
American
Us
Defeated
The case for exploiting animals for food, clothing and entertainment often relies on our superior intelligence, language and self-awareness: the rights of the superior being trump those of the inferior.
Michael Shermer
Food
Entertainment
Rights
Intelligence
Language
Superior
Animals
Our
Those
Case
Self-Awareness
Trump
Inferior
Often
Being
Clothing
Exploiting
I firmly believe that talent and intelligence are universal, but resources and opportunities are not.
Michael Tubbs
Intelligence
Opportunities
Believe
Resources
Firmly
Talent
Universal
The unpredictability of the weather, the increasing possibility of intelligence introducing a species more powerful than ours, the growing uncertainty that animals can or should be slaughtered for our pleasure, has led many of us to start asking more complex questions about what is and isn't normal.
Michaela Coel
Intelligence
Weather
Animals
Increasing
Our
Pleasure
Complex
Ours
Possibility
Introducing
Unpredictability
About
More
Uncertainty
Powerful
Led
Normal
Questions
Than
Us
Asking
Should
Many
Growing
Species
Start
Slaughtered
I've never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There's his humor and intelligence, too, and he's really cute, all those things - but if you don't respect your partner, you'll get sick of him.
Michelle Pfeiffer
You
Respect
Integrity
Intelligence
Humor
Husband
Partner
Met
Cute
Sick
Too
Those
More
Never
He
Him
His
Than
Person
Get
Really
Your
Who
Things
It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.
Mike Crapo
Government
Best
Health
Good
Wise
Intelligence
Job
Responsibility
Sense
Our
Ourselves
Good Sense
Consumption
Make
Up
Behalf
Mandate
Children
Us
Choices
My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.
Mike Leigh
Work
Selfish
Intelligence
Enormous
Demands
Wit
Most
Also
Narcissistic
Committed
Requires
Acting
Actor
Resilience
Being on the Intelligence Committee made me more of a hawk.
Mike Quigley
Me
Intelligence
Made
More
Hawk
Committee
Being
I think what we're learning with the Trump Jr. meeting is when you meet with any Russians, you're meeting with Russian intelligence. And, therefore, President Putin.
Mike Quigley
You
Learning
Intelligence
Think
President
Meet
Meeting
Russian
Russians
Putin
Trump
Any
Therefore
Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.
Mike Rogers
Time
Intelligence
Seen
Important
Before
Congress
Think
More
My Time
Important Role
Than
Role
Decisions
Ever
Playing
The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.
Mike Simpson
Terrorism
Technology
Intelligence
Better
Crime
Made
Long
Nation
Increased
Tools
Our
Ability
Cases
Investigators
Share
Involving
Been
Provided
Greatly
Intelligence Information
Patriot
Patriot Act
Information
Available
Act
Use
Organized
Illegal
Original
I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.
Mikhail Bakunin
Character
Knowledge
Respect
Intelligence
Criticism
Freely
Always
Listen
Censure
Them
Right
The United States has an unfair advantage, as most of the popular cloud services, search engines, computer and mobile operating systems or web browsers are made by U.S. companies. When the rest of the world uses the net, they are effectively using U.S.-based services, making them a legal target for U.S. intelligence.
Mikko Hypponen
Legal
Intelligence
World
Made
Rest
Unfair
Cloud
States
Systems
Web
Net
Computer
Advantage
Most
Operating
Operating Systems
Making
Mobile
Effectively
Target
Them
Engines
Companies
Uses
Popular
Using
Search
Search Engines
United
United States
Services
It's high time for a fresh European alternative to enter the market, taking the existing Internet behemoths head on. What the world needs now is a cloud storage service that is not subject to uncontrolled access by intelligence agencies.
Mikko Hypponen
Service
Time
Needs
Intelligence
World
Internet
Cloud
Market
Enter
High
High Time
Head
Uncontrolled
Taking
Alternative
Access
Fresh
Subject
Existing
Intelligence Agencies
Storage
Agencies
European
Now
U.S. intelligence has the legal right to monitor foreign communications as they go through to U.S. service providers. However, even though something is legal doesn't make it right. I'm not American; I don't really care about what data is being collected about American citizens. I'm worried about us, the foreigners.
Mikko Hypponen
Service
Legal
Intelligence
Care
Worried
Though
Collected
Citizens
About
Something
Data
Through
Make
Foreign
Go
However
Foreigners
Providers
Legal Right
American
American Citizens
Being
Us
Communications
Really
Even
Right
Service Providers
Monitor
When I was working on 'Homeland,' there was a consultant who helped me a lot... I went to Washington and met with my consultant there, and he actually organised a lunch with several people from the Intelligence Committee.
Miranda Otto
Me
People
Intelligence
Met
Lunch
Several
Consultant
He
Lot
Committee
Organised
Working
Who
Helped
Homeland
Washington
Actually
There are so many successful women working in intelligence, but it's still seen as a male-dominated world.
Miranda Otto
Women
Intelligence
World
Seen
Still
Successful
Working
Many
This is a man who was 23 years old when he theorized the idea of creating a programmable machine, and in that way, Turing foresaw computers and artificial intelligence. These were revolutionary ideas at that time.
Morten Tyldum
Time
Man
Artificial Intelligence
Intelligence
Old
Way
Machine
Computers
He
Idea
Ideas
Were
Years
Revolutionary
Artificial
Creating
Who
We cannot blindly pursue the goal of machine intelligence without pondering its consequences.
Moshe Vardi
Intelligence
Blindly
Consequences
Machine
We Cannot
Pursue
Without
Goal
Cannot
Modi has misused institutions like the ED, Intelligence Bureau, CBI, RBI and National Statistical Commission for political gains and harassing his political opponents. Modi lost his credibility by all these acts.
N. Chandrababu Naidu
Intelligence
Political
National
Lost
Statistical
Like
Institutions
Opponents
Misused
His
Political Opponents
Commission
Bureau
Gains
Acts
Credibility
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