Cofer Black Quotes

• We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.

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  Tags in Worked, Terrorist, Develop

• We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.

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  Tags in Action, Operate

• We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us and our allies.

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  Tags in Terrorists, Certainty, Against

• The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.

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  Tags in Developed, Human

• The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none.

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  Tags in Government, Terrorism

• The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that’s not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence.

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  Tags in Violence, Possible, Create

• Osama bin Laden’s own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.

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  Tags in American, Declared

• No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise to take their place.

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  Tags in Matter, Organizations, Terrorist

• I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.

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  Tags in Officer, Policy

• As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism.

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  Tags in People, Happy, Terrorism

• Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.

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  Tags in Organization, Trying, Stress

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Birth:	1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Ambassador, Intelligence Officer

About

Joseph Cofer Black was born in Stamford, Connecticut. He is a former CIA official who was appointed Ambassador at Large and Coordinator for Counter-terrorism by President George W. Bush in December 2002. He led the Office of Counterterrorism in the U.S. State Department until his resignation in November 2004. Previously Black had a 28-year career in the Directorate of Operations at the Central Intelligence Agency. He was appointed Director of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center in June 1999. In 1973, Black completed his BA at the University of Southern California. The next year he earned a Master's degree in international relations, also at USC. Black received the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the George H. Bush Medal for Excellence, and the Exceptional Collector Award for 1994.

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