Vincent Cannistraro Quotations

Many of these people came from repressive countries and regimes to begin with and had no love for speaking with authorities. The only way you overcome that is by building relationships with the community, and this had the opposite effect.

Basically, cooked information is working its way into high-level pronouncements and there's a lot of unhappiness about it in intelligence, especially among analysts at the CIA,

If anything is a soft target, it's that.

They tore his fingernails out and he started to tell things.

It was a terrible, terrible idea. It was the worst kind of public relations move you could make because it deprives you of access to the people who are first to know. It was horrible. It was paranoia at its worst.

His actions by going out to the CIA, attempting to pressure analysts on the subject of weapons of mass destruction, all fall from his conviction that Saddam was an evil person who needed to be replaced by the US.