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"In other words, by finding the anomalous event, what you do is you get out ahead of activities."
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"Surveillance shouldn't be the tradeoff for any goddamn service we get."

"In other words, by finding the anomalous event, what you do is you get out ahead of activities."
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"The users are not going to be in the position of accepting what's been collected; they're going to be in the position of being able to demand collection."


"The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the department and the harm that can come to it by failing to detect when we have, in fact, been harmed."


"Where we have the choice between putting a dollar against those that are going to advance horizontal integration and those that are going to sustain current capability, we'd rather put them against the horizontal integration activity."


"The office has oversight of people who do analysis and oversight of people who do operations, but it is not charged with doing either. That is an important point to make. Those functions are performed by the CIA, DIA and other agencies."


"That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require."


"When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications."


"Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national."


"So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern."


"It's easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it - the war fighter and the analyst."


"One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format that's useful to them."
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