John Brennan and President Obama in the Oval office. The North Bergen native had a long CIA career and has served many presidents. WHITE HOUSE PHOTONBC: Former Spooks Criticize CIA Director John Brennan for Spying Comments
Former CIA officers are expressing exasperation over CIA director John Brennan's recent remark that "we don't steal secrets."
"Is he joking?" John Sipher, who spent decades spying in sensitive overseas posts and retired in 2014 as a senior manager, wrote in a column published Wednesday on a national security web site, the Cipher Brief.
In fact, Sipher and other former CIA officers say, stealing secrets is the CIA's "job one" overseas.
Brennan told National Public Radio last week that he objects to the idea that the CIA engages in theft.
"We uncover. We discover. We reveal. We obtain. We elicit. We solicit — all of that," he said.
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Update: This is interesting .... Time for a New CIA? (John Sipher, The Cipher Brief)
3 comments:
A version of the old "Gentlemen do not read other Gentlemen's mail".
What kind of secrets could they steal?
"What kind of secrets could they steal?"
If the Chinese are near parity or at parity with us in tech, there is plenty to steal.
You always want to steal their war plans. Ignorance is not bliss.
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