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I did get a letter from the speaker of the House urging - enjoining me not to brief Secretary Clinton, and lots of cards and letters from people about not briefing Mr. Trump.

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The history of the intelligence community is replete with violations of the trust of the American people.

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In this job, I've found the less I talk, the better.

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ISIL particularly is very slick, very sophisticated, proselytizing and recruiting, and they are very astute users of social media.

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The number one foreign policy goal of Russia is control of the former Soviet space.

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The country of Iraq is somewhat of an artificial creation going back to colonial days. And so you have the Kurds and then the Sunnis in the north predominantly and Shias in the south.

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The term 'Muslim Brotherhood'... is an umbrella term for a variety of movements: in the case of Egypt, a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried Al Qaeda as a perversion of Islam.

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If ISIL were to substantially increase the priority it places on attacking the West rather than fighting to maintain and expand territorial control, then the group's access to radicalized Westerners who have fought in Syria and Iraq would provide a pool of operatives who potentially have access to the United States and other Western countries.

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This is strictly personal opinion, not company policy, but I do think that we could do with having a USIA on steroids.

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The Russians have a long history of interfering in elections - theirs and other people's.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Public Servant

Born: March 14th, 1941

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