Michael Morell
Former Deputy Director, CIA. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Everything Michael Morell said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Morell: Intelligence Case for Iraq WMDs Was Stronger Than Bin Laden Case
“And the punchline, right, the punchline was, Mr. President the case that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction was stronger than the case that Bin Laden is. You could hear a pin drop in the Situation Room, and it was true, right?”
Morell: Backed Apple over FBI in encryption debate to avoid vulnerabilities
“On the encryption debate, I was actually not where you would expect me to be. I was not on the side of the FBI. I was on Apple's side, because by forcing Apple to create a key for its keyless encryption, you were creating another huge security vulnerability.”
Morell: Snowden leaks damaged US tech companies' business overseas
“Edward Snowden Did serious damage to that relationship because the perceptions of the private sector covertly helping the government, whether those were true or not, but the perception that was created, right, of that significantly damaged some American compan…”
CIA Analysts Estimated 60% to 95% Probability Bin Laden Was in Abbottabad
“So the lead analyst said, 95% chance he's there. And the senior most analyst said, 80% chance. And I was at 60%.”
Morell: Russian networks posted en masse minutes after Clinton's 2016 collapse
“So within five minutes of Secretary Clinton falling in New York City on September 11th during the campaign, there were hundreds of thousands of social media postings coming out of Eastern Europe and Russia questioning whether she was healthy enough to be presi…”
Morell: US banks have far superior cybersecurity compared to government
“Cybersecurity in large U.S. Financial institutions is light years ahead of cybersecurity in the United States government.”
Presidents routinely ask the CIA to solve intractable problems, says Michael Morell
“There is this tendency that In every administration that I've seen, and I saw six of them, three Republican, three Democrat, for when the problem gets really hard to turn to CIA and say, fix this. Using covert action, fix this. And a lot of the times, CIA can'…”
Morell: Border biometrics make traveling under alias difficult for CIA officers
“Biometrics used at borders makes it very difficult for CIA operations officers to travel in alias.”
Morell: CIA stores its top secrets on paper, not digitally
“For CIA's most sensitive information, we don't store it digitally. We store it on paper, in a safe, in a room, with a lock on it, that only a handful of people can get access to.”
Morell: 70% of In-Q-Tel investments deliver products to intelligence community
“70% of what they've invested in have given a product or a service back to the intelligence community.”
Morell: Senior analysts distinguish themselves by answering questions without excessive caveats
“The ability to answer a president's question without giving 10 caveats, which no president's going to listen to, is the difference between a junior analyst and a senior analyst, right?”
Morell: Strong encryption makes human spies more essential to intelligence services
“Technology actually sometimes makes a human Spy more important. So take encryption, for example. Terrorists can now talk to each other without security services and intelligence services getting in the middle of that. So if that's the case, then technical coll…”
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