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The point I wanted to make was, as we have moved forward on the war on terrorism, FISA has been increasingly effective in terms of results.

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People don't question American power. What people need to be convinced of is American will.

~Michael Hayden

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Once you're in a network, you can do a whole bunch of things to that network. It's just that NSA doesn't have the authority to do that.

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It's hard to brief in the Oval. You know, you can't - no visual aids, hard to roll out something in front of somebody.

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The FISA Amendment Act of 2008 actually allows some of the things we were doing under the president's authority only against al Qaeda, it allows them for all legitimate foreign intelligence purposes.

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We live inside a democracy, and you know, public will matters in a democracy. I just hope it's informed public will, and frankly, when the decisions are made, you understand the costs.

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When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.

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Al Qaida changes; Al Qaida adapts. We have to adapt as well. We rely on resources to do that. Reducing resources beyond a certain point will make us less able to adapt as our enemy adapts.

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My personal view is that Iran, left to its own devices, will get itself to that step right below a nuclear weapon, that permanent breakout stage, so the needle isn't quite in the red for the international community. And, frankly, that will be as destabilizing as their actually having a weapon.

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When I was in government, what we would used to mystically call 'the kinetic option' was way down on our list. In my personal thinking - in my personal thinking, I need to emphasize that - I have begun to consider that that may not be the worst of all possible outcomes.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Public Servant

Born: March 17th, 1945

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