Best quotes by Valerie Plame on Intelligence

Checkout quotes by Valerie Plame on Intelligence

  • Privatization is more efficient and effective in some cases, but not in intelligence.
    - Valerie Plame
  • Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
    - Valerie Plame
  • I love my career. I thought, if I was lucky, I would retire as a senior intelligence officer, still working on the issues of counterproliferation. But that didn't happen, so - new chapter.
    - Valerie Plame
  • The intelligence community really is a vast bureaucratic entity, and it has been politicized in ways that are not effective for the gathering of intelligence and giving it to senior policymakers.
    - Valerie Plame
  • There's a huge impact on national security and intelligence. The new normal is going to be more and more of these hacks, whether it's Target or Home Depot or the Office of Personnel Management or Jennifer Lawrence's nude photos.
    - Valerie Plame
  • I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
    - Valerie Plame
  • Regarding Wikileaks, I have profound ambivalent feelings about it. I am a firm believer in a strong intelligence service. There's a need for classified information.
    - Valerie Plame
  • The entire intelligence community is so bloated and so reliant on contractors. There's no question there's many tasks that make sense to outsource, and yet, we have followed blindly this dogma that if it's private contracting, it must be better.
    - Valerie Plame
  • A chief of station is the head of all intelligence operations in any given country.
    - Valerie Plame