Political Quotes

“last week, Senator Boren and myself introduced a measure to try to respond to the recent incident that revealed that the United States has a major spy problem. I am referring, of course, to the revelation that a CIA employee with access to highly sensitive information has been on the Soviet payroll or Russian payroll for some years now. I might say, it strikes many people as somewhat inconsistent for the Russian Government to be holding out its right hand for assistance from the United States and, at the same time, with its left hand, it is picking our pockets. Nonetheless, I think we have to point the finger of blame not only at Moscow but also at ourselves. Four years ago, Senator Boren and myself introduced a measure that would have reformed our counterintelligence system and, in my judgment, could have prevented the kind of thing that has taken place here with Mr. Aldrich Ames. He has now joined a list of a long string of those who have betrayed their country. In the past, people betrayed their country out of ideological zeal. But the days of Philby, Burgess, MacLean, Blount, and the Rosenbergs are over. Now our Nation's secrets are sold at the espionage bazaar to the most generous buyer. More spies have been named during the last 14 years than ever before in our history. They have been clerks, analysts, counterespionage specialists, cryptanalysts, officers, and enlisted personnel from every one of our military services.…”