#la

No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise to take their place. ↗

— Cofer Black

#degrade #destroy #disrupt #group #how

I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from? ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#around #big #big enough #brain #come

Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations. ↗

— Cofer Black

#before #caught #figure #getting #how

Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants. ↗

— Cofer Black

#american #bin #civilians #combatants #considered

The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none. ↗

— Cofer Black

#contribution #global #global war #government #key

The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish. ↗

— Cofer Black

#al #could #deal #depended #developed

We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification. ↗

— Cofer Black

#authorities #communicated #covert #law #memorandum

We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home, no income of any kind and no prospects whatsoever. ↗

— James W. Black

#debts #friends #had #home #however

I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates. ↗

— Frank Black

#classical #driving #girlfriend #hall #i

I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ↗

— Frank Black

#any #because #break #certain #easy