Political Quotes

“reclaiming my time, what my colleague is talking about is that in 1995 and 1996 the Clinton administration implemented what was called the Deutsch Doctrine. John Deutsch was the director of the CIA. And, after some things happened in 1995, the Deutsch Doctrine becomes the official policy of the CIA. What does the Deutsch Doctrine say? It does what my colleague said, although maybe not quite as strict as what my colleague said; but it said, we are not going to recruit as human assets those individuals who have human rights records or who have criminal records; we are not going to recruit those kinds of people to spy for the United States. As a matter of fact, we are not only going to not recruit those people in the future, we are going to go and do what is called the ``Deutsch scrub.'' We are going to go back and take a look at those people who are working for us today. They have made that choice, they have left the dark side, they are spying for the United States, they are giving us the information that we need to be safe, but the Clinton administration says, thanks, but no thanks. You have a dark record in your background, you are out of here, leaving these people in no man's land and saying, well, let me see. I was a bad guy, I came over to the good side, and now you are cutting me loose. It was a chilling effect for the work of the CIA and the people that were doing the work in the CIA.”