The State Department said the countries that are most stealing our best ideas also are our best allies.

I was a prosecutor and an FBI agent for many, many years.

The State Department said the countries that are most stealing our best ideas also are our best allies.

If five years from now we solve the access problem, but what we're hearing is all encrypted, I'll probably, if I'm still here, be talking about that in a very different way: the objective is the same. The objective is for us to get those conversations whether they're by an alligator clip or ones and zeros. Whoever they are, whatever they are, I need them.

Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.

The fraudster's greatest liability is the certainty that the fraud is too clever to be detected.

My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.