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Quotes About Classified

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
In the case of someone sharing classified information with foreign intelligence, for example, the FBI could surreptitiously ensure that they are no longer able to obtain sensitive information.
~ Asha Rangappa
In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.
~ Gijs de Vries
Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.
~ David Boies
Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.
~ Richard Engel
This is systems security for the Central Intelligence Agency. We would like to know why you are attempting to hack one of our classified databases.
~ Dan Brown
Yuh-huh. They spooled it off the back of a big boat. My dad said it was for the bird sanctuary's telecommunications and Internet system. I asked him if birds use landline phones and Web browsers. He told me that information was classified.
~ Chris Grabenstein
The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them.
~ Kevin J. Anderson
There are so many secrets in our world.
~ Jenna Morasca
Tell them it's a secret. Tell them they don't need to know.
~ Tove Jansson
President Reagan proposed further broadening the use of the polygraph test. All executive departments were authorized to "require employees to take a polygraph examination in the course of investigations of unauthorized disclosures of classified information.
~ Paul Ekman
Fairness is not decomposable into other classified strengths, although such characteristics as kindness may lay its foundation and such characteristics as self-regulation may facilitate its implementation.
~ Christopher Peterson
Team within the United States, such operations had to be kept secret because the CIA was prohibited by its Charter from carrying out operations in the United States.
~ Unknown
The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.
~ Hillary Clinton
Even if information is not marked classified in an email, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it.
~ James Comey
Romero's stepfather knew something was up when an officer working on a classified Russian dogfight simulation asked him if his stepson was interested in a part-time job.
~ David Kushner
Much of the new money, on top of the already existing multi-billion-dollar budgets of the intelligence community and the military agencies, went into classified budget annexes under a new catch-all category called "GWOT" (pronounced Gee-Watt), for the Global War on Terror.2
~ Dana Priest
For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.
~ Dana Boente
SCI: Special Compartmentalized Information. Classified information concerning or derived from sensitive intelligence sources, methods, or analytical processes. Often found on private basement servers in upstate New York or bathroom closet servers in Denver.
~ Unknown
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
~ Luther Burbank
How did you get here, anyway?" "It's classified." "I'm close enough to stab you with a fork.
~ John Scalzi
It is said that there are as many as one thousand seven hundred koan. They are classified according to the specific styles of the different schools in which they have been employed. In our School of Tekisui, koan problems are generally classified into hosshin (The body of Dharma), kikan (dynamism), gonsen (verbal expression), nanto (difficulty in passing through), kojo (stage of refinement), and matsugo no rokan (the final gate).
~ Unknown
The Agency's job is keeping secrets. You could ask about the weather, and they would neither confirm or deny that there IS weather.
~ Pamela Clare
In Russia, everything is a secret, but nothing is a mystery.
~ Paul Levine