"So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants." ― Robert Mueller Topic(s): Intelligence More From Robert Mueller "Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult – often impossible – for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us." "We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously." "What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas." More In Intelligence "People don’t want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology – all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why."― Peter Thiel "The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing."― Paul Harris "Foreign Ministry guys don’t become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies."― Aldrich Ames