In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts. – Alexander Cockburn
A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI. – Bob Graham
A document was drafted in the State Department in July 1946 by an official named Samuel Klaus. This indicated that there were then 20 alleged Soviet agents, 13 alleged Communists, about a dozen sympathizers, and about 75 suspects in the department, according to the FBI. – M. Stanton Evans
The inattention of the Bush administration to the threat from al Qaeda had results. Shortly before 9/11, Bush’s attorney general, John Ashcroft, turned down FBI requests for some 400 additional counterterrorism personnel. – Peter L. Bergen
In the 1960s, after the Cuban Revolution, CIA and FBI agents often coordinated their activities with anti-Castro Cuban exiles. – Greg Grandin
In the case of the FBI, I revealed that William Sessions, the FBI director, had been engaging in abuses of all kinds, and I exposed that. And that led to his dismissal by President Clinton. – Ronald Kessler
When I interviewed profilers in 1984 in the basement of the FBI Academy at Quantico, VA., there were just four of them – Roger Depue, John Douglas, Roy Hazelwood, and Robert Ressler. – Ronald Kessler
In fact, I had previously helped train one of the FBI agents who searched my apartment. – Steven Hatfill
What I had later learned was that the FBI knew I was going to New York a couple days after the raid. – Sherman Austin
