The resistance of policy-ma... by Aldrich Ames, an American Criminal

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“The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.”

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Aldrich Ames

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Name: Aldrich Ames

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Jun 19, 1941

Profession: Criminal

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The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.

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The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

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The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.

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I'm a traitor, but I don't consider myself a traitor.

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An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.

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