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nuclear missiles? How many tanks?
~ Tim Weiner
But Freeh's FBI managed to bury the fact that its most highly valued source on Chinese espionage in the United States, a politically wired California woman named Katrina Leung, had been spying for China throughout the 1980s and 1990s. All the while, she was having sex with the special agent in charge of her case, a top supervisor of the FBI's China Squad, James J. Smith—and occasionally with a leading FBI counterintelligence expert on China, William Cleveland.
~ Tim Weiner
But no one wanted to embarrass the Bureau. The case festered for years. Not until after Freeh's departure was it clear that the Chinese, Russian, and Cuban intelligence services all had penetrated the FBI in the 1990s. So had a member of the world's most dangerous and least-known terrorist organization. His name was Ali Mohamed. Al-Qaeda had a double agent posing as an informer for the FBI.
~ Tim Weiner
Under Cheney's direction, the United States moved to restore the powers of secret intelligence that had flourished for fifty-five years under J. Edgar Hoover. In public speeches, the president, the vice president, and the attorney general renewed the spirit of the Red raids. In top secret orders, they revived the techniques of surveillance that the FBI had used in the war on communism. The
~ Tim Weiner
The director of the National Security Agency, General Michael V. Hayden, had told tens of thousands of his officers in a video message: "We are going to keep America free by making Americans feel safe again.
~ Tim Weiner
Stellar Wind resurrected Cold War tactics with twenty-first-century technology. It let the FBI work with the NSA outside of the limits of the law.
~ Tim Weiner
their installations. Once a wiretap was approved, Hoover considered it approved forever. Hoover had asserted that the FBI was free to install bugs at will, without informing a higher authority. He told Katzenbach that this power had been granted him in perpetuity by Franklin Delano Roosevelt a quarter of a century ago.
~ Tim Weiner
The other day we hauled in a guy named Abu Zubaydah," President Bush said at a Republican fund-raiser in Greenwich, Connecticut, on April 9. "He's one of the top operatives plotting and planning death and destruction on the United States. He's not plotting and planning anymore. He's where he belongs.
~ Tim Weiner
She also had run Stellar Wind since its inception. Mueller made her his right hand.
~ Tim Weiner
authorize wiretaps to protect the United States from foreign spies and subversives. But the targets of these taps were not KGB agents. They were thirteen American government officials and four newspaper reporters. Over the next two years, though the leaks went on, the taps never revealed a shred of incriminating evidence against anyone. But they were the first step down the road to Watergate. On
~ Tim Weiner
Denial of such employment was spelled out to include anyone associated with communism, homosexuals, drunks, and other social aberrants who might be considered threats to the security of the USA. It was a nasty
~ Tim Weiner
People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
~ Timothy Ferriss
1,000,000 in the bank isn't the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Must-watch documentary The Gatekeepers (2012)
~ Timothy Ferriss
ten un respaldo"». Si tienes dos cosas de algo y se te rompe o pierdes una, te queda otra;
~ Timothy Ferriss
Can they redistribute retirement throughout life to make it more affordable?
~ Timothy Ferriss
Manuel Blum, who many people consider the father of cryptography [encryption, etc.].
~ Timothy Ferriss
Cubrir los inconvenientes: «Cada una de estas [personas] está obsesionada con no perder dinero. Pero
~ Timothy Ferriss
Ésta es la razón por la que yo uso los servicios de Uber o un pseudónimo siempre que utilizo un vehículo con conductor en cualquier parte del mundo.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Si no tienes nada que esconder, no debes preocuparte por tu privacidad,
~ Timothy Ferriss
y que debemos sacrificar nuestra privacidad para tener seguridad.»
~ Timothy Ferriss
Usa BitLocker con Windows o FileVault con OS X.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Los datos quedarán encriptados cuando la máquina esté apagada o en modo suspendido.
~ Timothy Ferriss
1Password o LastPass
~ Timothy Ferriss