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As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.

~Bobby Ray Inman

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You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.

~Bobby Ray Inman

Topics: Intelligence Keep Policy Separate Want You

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Iraq is not about oil.

~Bobby Ray Inman

Topics: About Iraq Oil

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Zealots often carry the day.

~Bobby Ray Inman

Topics: Carry Day Often

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And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.

~Bobby Ray Inman

Topics: Defending End Good Last Moment North Oliver Policy Really Soldier Up

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Myself, I don't think you will ever get security in the Mideast until you have what on the surface appears to be fair to both sides. You have to have leaders committed to peace, on both sides. One side can't impose a solution.

~Bobby Ray Inman

Topics: Appears Both Both Sides Committed Ever Fair Get Impose Leaders Myself Peace Security Side Sides Solution Surface Think Until Will You

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Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States; the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas.

~Bobby Ray Inman

Topics: Agencies Another Collect Decision Divide Factor Foreign Intelligence Intelligence Agencies Made Overseas Sharply States United United States Within Would Fbi

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The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.

~Bobby Ray Inman

Topics: Appoint Assuming Bush Central Chief Competitor Director Ford George Got Had Intelligence Persuaded Potential Presidency President Rid Rumor Staff Standard Time

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I can remember - I don't want to identify the individual - but a very prominent Democrat, who compared looking at Carter and then Reagan, and then Bush, and observed that many of the people around Carter were totally disloyal to him.

~Bobby Ray Inman

Topics: Around Bush Carter Compared Democrat Disloyal Him Identify Individual Looking Many Observed People Prominent Reagan Remember Then Totally Very Want Were Who I Can

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Soldier

Born: April 4th, 1931

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