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NSA is a very conservative culture legally. Our lawyers at NSA were notorious for their conservatism up through the morning of September 11th, 2001. The single most consistent criticism of the NSA legal office by our congressional oversight committee was that our legal office was too conservative.

~Michael Hayden

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Nothing more threatens Vladimir Putin than not being able to track his own citizens.

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I don't know if the European Union contributes a great deal to espionage. At the union level, they talk about commerce and privacy. But to keep citizens safe, that remains a responsibility back in national capitals.

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The question is how much of your privacy and your convenience and your commerce do you want your nation's security apparatus to squeeze in order to keep you safe? And it is a choice that we have to make.

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There is an unarguable downside to unbreakable encryption.

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The Constitution defends all of us against unreasonable search and seizure. What constitutes reasonableness depends upon threat.

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'End strength' - the total number of government employees you can have at the end of the year. That's a separate exercise and requires independent energy, independent effort with the Congress to get the ceiling of your government employees raised.

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George Tenet was actually a very strong centralizing force. If you met George by personality, George met with the president six days out of seven: nontrivial attribute inside the federal government. And George was head of the CIA.

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Public discussion of how we determine al Qaeda intentions, I just - I can't see how that can do anything but harm the security of the nation.

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The attorney general is the only one who can authorize what's called an emergency FISA.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Public Servant

Born: March 17th, 1945

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