Michael Scheuer
Michael Scheuer
Michael F. Scheuer is a former CIA intelligence officer, American blogger, author, foreign policy critic, and political analyst. He is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's Center for Peace and Security Studies. One of his assignments during his 22-year career was serving as Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Stationfrom 1996 to 1999. He also served as Special Advisor to the Chief of Alec Station from September 2001 to November 2004...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
CountryUnited States of America
acquire al effort found involved mass qaeda weapons
We had found that he and al Qaeda were involved in an extraordinarily sophisticated and professional effort to acquire weapons of mass destruction.
clearly time
Time is not on America's side. We're clearly losing.
frankly resigned
Frankly when I resigned in November, there wasn't anyone.
settled worst
But at the end of the day, we settled for the worst possibility -- he was there and we didn't do anything.
action covert dirty hands rather view
She was always of the view that she would rather not get her hands dirty with covert action.
asked people president
We asked the president what we should do with the people we capture.
extra fighting fights-and-fighting mile offer warn
When Saladin was fighting the Crusaders, he would warn them, he would offer them a truce, he would try to go the extra mile before attacking.
clearly despite dominate isolated media proves wants
It proves two things. He's not dead. And despite all the things we say about him being isolated and alone, he can clearly dominate the international media when he wants to.
agency asked either publish
The agency never asked me, for either book, not to publish it.
america building cover either exposure
The exposure of such, either firms or aircraft, just undoes years of cover building and makes America weaker.
almost talking
They have always been almost puritanical in talking about setbacks.
bush huge wants
There's been a huge wedge between what the analysts think and what the Bush administration wants them to say.
dangerous threat within worldwide
This is a worldwide and still very dangerous threat and is well within what he has said before.
nuclear unlike
In this case, nuclear material, so by the end of 1996, it was clear that this was an organization unlike any other one we had ever seen.