C. Blair
C. Blair
trust senior government
All officers of the Intelligence Community, and especially its most senior officer, must conduct themselves in a manner that earns and retains the public trust. The American people are uncomfortable with government activities that do not take place in the open, subject to public scrutiny and review.
religious kings nice
The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?
independent important analysis
Nothing is more important to national security and the making and conduct of good policy than timely, accurate, and relevant intelligence. Nothing is more critical to accurate and relevant intelligence than independent analysis.
white house integrating
My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.
agencies among barrier fbi foreign intelligence mechanisms reforms solved
Before 9/11 there were weak procedures, willingness, and mechanisms for communicating among agencies for foreign intelligence and the FBI with its focus on law enforcement. The domestic-vs.-foreign barrier has been solved by the reforms after 9/11 that established the DNI.
admire bring change great inspirational leaders luther mandela martin muslim nelson nice religious smart
The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?
against economic extreme ideologies interests open sections served stand willing
I think American interests are served when there are sections of the world that have representative governments, politically open economic systems, and are willing to take a stand against some of the more extreme ideologies that there are around the world.
I find when you talk with the Chinese on most subjects, they are very practical.
You can't always get someone where you want to with just sticks. There have to be some carrots, there have to be some other shaping things.