True Faith and Allegiance Quotes

“They were genuinely impressed with the use of open-source intelligence to derive the identities of America’s spies and agents,”
― Mark Greaney, True Faith and Allegiance

“I agree with Winston Churchill, who said an appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. “If”
― Mark Greaney, True Faith and Allegiance

“Jack had no doubt in his mind several of America’s best and brightest minds in this field were now dead because of their decision to network on LinkedIn. With”
― Mark Greaney, True Faith and Allegiance

“It occurred to him that there is so much out there these days about people in open source that a motivated and intelligent individual could take old SF-86 info and translate it into real-time targeting info.”
― Mark Greaney, True Faith and Allegiance

“Al-Matari and each of his cell members had loaded the application Silent Phone onto their smartphones, and with this app they could communicate via end-to-end encryption, using either instant messaging or voice calls, and they could also send files to one another. Al-Matari,”
― Mark Greaney, True Faith and Allegiance

“All skill is in vain when an angel pisses in the flintlock of your musket.”
― Mark Greaney, True Faith and Allegiance

“fight in America would cost him an average of one million dollars a day, at least, plus significant operating expenses from al-Matari’s cell, but if the end result meant America came to Iraq with boots on the ground, pushed back the Iranian hordes encroaching toward the south, ended pro-Iranian Alawite rule in Syria, and brought the price of oil back up to a level that would protect Saudi Arabian leadership’s domestic security . . . well, then, Sami bin Rashid would have done his job, and the King would reward him for life. A moment later INFORMER confirmed he received the money, and he told his customer to watch his mailbox in the dark web portal on his computer, and to wait for the files to come through. True to his word, INFORMER’s files began popping up, one by one. While bin Rashid clicked on the attachments, a smile grew inside his trim gray beard. First, the name, the address, and a photograph of a woman. A map of the area around where the woman lived. A CV of her work with the Defense Intelligence Agency, including foreign and domestic postings that would have her involved in the American campaign in the Middle East. Real-time intel about her daily commute, including the house where she would be watering the plants and checking the mail all week for a friend. Incredible, bin Rashid thought to himself. Where the hell is this coming from? The next file was all necessary targeting info on a recently retired senior CIA operations officer, who continued to work on a contract basis in the intelligence field. He spoke Arabic, trained others in tradecraft, counterintelligence,”
― Mark Greaney, True Faith and Allegiance

“in Europe and the United States, and al-Matari’s plan came to naught. Then Sami bin Rashid met Abu Musa al-Matari in Kosovo,”
― Mark Greaney, True Faith and Allegiance

“We aren’t here to cover our asses. We’re here to serve the United States of America. For four damn years people in this administration have known that a company in India had access to sensitive material. Just because we didn’t know they took it is no reason to pat ourselves on the back. Just because you didn’t know personally, people you are responsible for did. And just because I didn’t know personally, I am responsible for you.” Zilko”
― Mark Greaney, True Faith and Allegiance

“In the intelligence field it had a name—IDENTINT, for identity intelligence—and although Dalca wasn’t in the intelligence field, he could develop targeting information on virtually anyone, anywhere, with a computer, a phone, and a little time. This”
― Mark Greaney, True Faith and Allegiance

“Army”
― Mark Greaney, True Faith and Allegiance

“with the soft mood lighting, and not even”
― Mark Greaney, True Faith and Allegiance

“and resilience.” He next called on a reporter for CNN, a woman”
― Mark Greaney, True Faith and Allegiance

“stepped up to the counter and asked to speak with”
― Mark Greaney, True Faith and Allegiance

“Clark arrived at La Madeleine café on King Street in Old Town Alexandria a few minutes before eight a.m. The”
― Mark Greaney, True Faith and Allegiance