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What does the record say about intelligence?
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Dearlove says US switched off intelligence for eight days, during which Ukraine lost the Kursk salient. [1]
Read the supporting quotation · One Decision · 2025-06-10
“if you want to force Zelensky to accept a ceasefire, if you switch off the intelligence for eight days I think it was and during those eight days they pretty much lost the Kursk salient so you can see immediately the detrimental effect it had militarily on the Ukrainians.”
Dearlove contends Iraqi intelligence sources told Saddam rearmament was more advanced than reality, misleading both Saddam and Western intelligence. [2]
Read the supporting quotation · Cliveden Literary Festival · 2019-10-11
“And the people we were talking to, I think, were telling Saddam that the rearmament was much more advanced than it actually was.”
Dearlove outlines Israeli war aims: destroy 450 kilos of enriched uranium and render Iran's ballistic missile system impractical. [3]
Read the supporting quotation · The Brink · 2026-03-13
“Tiny rich uranium, which survived the original attack during the twelve day war. I think I think the second one is to render the ballistic missile system impractical.”
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What does the record say about china?
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Dearlove warns Chinese cars have cellular modules that could be reprogrammed remotely to immobilize vehicles in a crisis. [1]
Read the supporting quotation · One Decision · 2025-06-10
“Because in every Chinese car there is a cellular module which is connected to the internet of things and that car in a crisis can be reprogrammed by the manufacturer in China.”
Dearlove predicts US and China will negotiate a new global security system within five years. [2]
Read the supporting quotation · Technion UK · 2020-10-29
“at some point in the next two, three, four, five years, I think The United States and China will sit down to work out how a new security system will, as it were, operate across the world to replace Pax Americana.”
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What does the record say about russia?
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Dearlove argues Trump and Russia both seek to replace Zelenskyy with a controllable Ukrainian leader. [1]
Read the supporting quotation · One Decision · 2025-12-22
“And what they want well, what the Russians want is a Manchurian candidate who does not appear to be a Manchurian candidate at all, who looks like a loyal Ukrainian,”
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What does the record say about iran?
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Dearlove publicly predicts Iran's regime will fall in 2026, standing by his forecast. [1]
Read the supporting quotation · TalkTV · 2026-01-09
“I had to make a podcast prediction for 2026 three weeks ago, and I said fall of the Iranian regime in 2026. I think I'm going to see that or we're going to see that.”
Dearlove outlines Israeli war aims: destroy 450 kilos of enriched uranium and render Iran's ballistic missile system impractical. [2]
Read the supporting quotation · The Brink · 2026-03-13
“Tiny rich uranium, which survived the original attack during the twelve day war. I think I think the second one is to render the ballistic missile system impractical.”
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What does the record say about ukraine?
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Dearlove says US switched off intelligence for eight days, during which Ukraine lost the Kursk salient. [1]
Read the supporting quotation · One Decision · 2025-06-10
“if you want to force Zelensky to accept a ceasefire, if you switch off the intelligence for eight days I think it was and during those eight days they pretty much lost the Kursk salient so you can see immediately the detrimental effect it had militarily on the Ukrainians.”
Dearlove says Russians want a Manchurian candidate in Ukraine who appears loyal but will make concessions. [2]
Read the supporting quotation · One Decision · 2025-12-22
“what the Russians want is a Manchurian candidate who does not appear to be a Manchurian candidate at all, who looks like a loyal Ukrainian, but after the election, will make the concessions that Zelensky may not have made or probably won't have made already.”
FROM THE RECORD · 16 matching entries · 2019-10-11 to 2026-03-13
What does the record say about iraq?
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Dearlove contends Iraqi intelligence sources told Saddam rearmament was more advanced than reality, misleading both Saddam and Western intelligence. [1]
Read the supporting quotation · Cliveden Literary Festival · 2019-10-11
“And the people we were talking to, I think, were telling Saddam that the rearmament was much more advanced than it actually was.”
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What does the record say about security?
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Dearlove warns Chinese cars have cellular modules that could be reprogrammed remotely to immobilize vehicles in a crisis. [1]
Read the supporting quotation · One Decision · 2025-06-10
“Because in every Chinese car there is a cellular module which is connected to the internet of things and that car in a crisis can be reprogrammed by the manufacturer in China.”
Dearlove opposes the Chinese embassy in the City of London due to sensitive communications cables underneath. [2]
Read the supporting quotation · Sky News · 2025-10-16
“And putting a Chinese embassy on top of that in a strategic place in the city of London seems to me an unnecessarily foolish and risky step to take and we should say no.”
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What does the record say about trump?
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Dearlove argues Trump and Russia both seek to replace Zelenskyy with a controllable Ukrainian leader. [1]
Read the supporting quotation · One Decision · 2025-12-22
“And what they want well, what the Russians want is a Manchurian candidate who does not appear to be a Manchurian candidate at all, who looks like a loyal Ukrainian,”
Dearlove says chemistry between Trump and Zelensky is terrible and US can force ceasefire by cutting intelligence. [3]
Read the supporting quotation · One Decision · 2025-06-10
“It's quite clear you know that the chemistry between Trump and Zelensky is terrible. They don't like each other, they don't get on with each other and that's been clear for some time but if you want to force Zelensky to accept a ceasefire, if you switch off the intelligence”
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“So I think it’s quite logical that in certain circumstances… he uses a body double.”
Expert describes possible security measure used by 'very high-profile target' Vladimir Putin · Kit Roberts
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“ he said.
But while it's not impossible that someone within Russia may wish to assassinate Putin, there is also one country in particular which could stand to benefit greatly from his assassination - Ukraine.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is continuing to grind on, and on multiple occasions Ukraine has shown that it has the capability to successfully strike targets deep inside Russia, so any occasion where Putin is outdoors particularly could place him at risk falling foul of a drone or missile strike, if Ukrainian intelligence were able to pinpoint where Putin was quickly and precisely enough.
“He would be a drone target for the Ukrainians as well, if they could know exactly where he was when,”
Expert describes possible security measure used by 'very high-profile target' Vladimir Putin · Kit Roberts
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“The United Kingdom in MI6 has, let's say, the agency with the broadest international remit with representation in many countries and with a depth and length of experience which is unmatched by any other European service.”
“I can honestly say I was in MI6 for thirty eight years and despite the discipline, the restraints, the secrecy, I probably never had a boring day at work.”
“Think the previous or departing DDA, that's the head of the operational bid of the CIA, I think it was called Tom Sylvester, who should have finished his career in London has been denied the job and has retired because it wasn't clear that he was a sort of uncritical mega Republican supporter.”
“the previous or departing DDA, that's the head of the operational bid of the CIA, I think it was called Tom Sylvester, who should have finished his career in London has been denied the job and has retired because it wasn't clear that he was a sort of uncritical mega Republican supporter.”
“It was clear there was a wish in the Bush administration to ascribe 9/11 to a linkage with Saddam Hussein. We in the UK violently disagreed. At a briefing in the White House with the president I challenged the CIA briefer and said he was talking nonsense, that there was absolutely no linkage, and that I could say authoritatively we knew there was not one.”
“Actually, at the moment, and I'm pretty critical of this, the overall SIV has been wrapped up into the defense budget to make the defense budget look bigger, which is a bit of a cheat because the government are very keen to show that they're increasing defense spending.”
“They need to up to 5%, and all they have to do is to cut the welfare budget. But of course, this government is the prisoner of its left wing and they can't do that.”
“When I got there, I discovered it was the IDF Mossad Shin Bet wash up for the two thousand and six war against Hezbollah. I was the only foreign intelligence officer present.”
“It's possible you could get an army takeover in Iran. By that, I mean, I'm drawing a distinction between the army and the IRGC. The army has a more nationalistic rather than theocratic.”
“I mean, I was urging the Blair government to form a military council. And actually talking to an American general recently who was part of that group, who was in a very senior position,”
“He said to me last week, couple of weeks ago, that he was actually in a hangar in Baghdad talking to 400 senior Iraqi officers about running the country when the order came through to disband the army, and they all lost their pensions at the same time.”
“Tiny rich uranium, which survived the original attack during the twelve day war. I think I think the second one is to render the ballistic missile system impractical.”
“I think you you should look at Israel, you know, as the new Sparta, really, This small country with a relatively small population has taken on and defeated a country of 90,000,000 people.”
“This small country with a relatively small population has taken on and defeated a country of 90,000,000 people. You know, it's an extraordinary military achievement. But beware, you could win militarily and lose politically.”
“In all of those cases, the superior air power and military of The United States and the West quickly removed the regimes or dictators, but then it was chaos.”
“this is a huge country, 93,000,000 people, very entrenched elite military force, the revolutionary guards, which are a 150,000, aside from the regular army.”
“How does the Iranian regime identify itself? It's devoted to the destruction of Israel. It is devoted to opposition to what it calls the great Satan.”
“On the other hand, you know, if you take a strict UN related view of the interpretation of international law, which is always being evolved by human rights lawyers, they all argue differently.”
“if you take a strict UN related view of the interpretation of international law, which is always being evolved by human rights lawyers, they all argue differently.”
“One is you end up with an Iranian regime, which is still run by Ayatollahs, but is prepared to be more compliant and will negotiate with Americans and with the rest of the Middle East.”
“Look. This has been planned for months by Israel and The United States. And the other factor in this, which hasn't been mentioned, Americans have a very brilliant admiral commanding this operation Brad Cooper, and I think there's much more care and logic behind it perhaps than people realize.”
“This has been planned for months by Israel and The United States. And the other factor in this, which hasn't been mentioned, Americans have a very brilliant admiral commanding this operation Brad Cooper, and I think there's much more care and logic behind it perhaps than people realize.”
“This has been planned for months by Israel and The United States. And the other factor in this, which hasn't been mentioned, Americans have a very brilliant admiral commanding this operation Brad Cooper,”
“He's losing his friends fast. American deterrence, whether we like Trump or not, is suddenly standing up on the world stage in a rather extraordinary way, which probably none of us had imagined would happen.”
“American deterrence, whether we like Trump or not, is suddenly standing up on the world stage in a rather extraordinary way, which probably none of us had imagined would happen.”
“So it seems the the only viable arrangement in my view to, as it were, have a effective ceasefire is to have aerial cover provided by NATO nations, which could be immediately deployed, but they're not going to be obviously based inside Ukrainian territory.”
“Look. There are precedents for this, which is the DMZ between North And South Korea, but that's, you know, an internationally evacuated ban between the two countries, and that's not you know, it's been there for years, but we're nowhere near that situation in terms of doing a deal with Russia over Ukraine.”
“There are precedents for this, which is the DMZ between North And South Korea, but that's, you know, an internationally evacuated ban between the two countries,”
“I had to make a podcast prediction for 2026 three weeks ago, and I said fall of the Iranian regime in 2026. I think I'm going to see that or we're going to see that.”
“Why the hell don't the Danes lease them, Iceland, for a sorry, Greenland for a hundred years. I mean, there used to be a big NATO American base Keflavik in Iceland.”
“Lease them Greenland. And, look, there are only 52,000 inhabitants there. Part of the deal could be a $100,000 from The US for each Inuit family or each Greenland family.”
“We've created a cozy social democratic environment on the back of American taxpayers, and we've gotta wake up and understand our vulnerabilities and pay for this ourselves.”
“I take the view, I think, and I spent a lot of time in The States, both professionally and privately, that Trump probably is a historical historical aberration.”
“the we reckon the Russian figures now are one point one, 1,200,000. I don't know what the fatalities are within that figure, over two hundred thousand probably, maybe even more than that.”
“we reckon the Russian figures now are one point one, 1,200,000. I don't know what the fatalities are within that figure, over two hundred thousand probably, maybe even more than that.”
“And what they want well, what the Russians want is a Manchurian candidate who does not appear to be a Manchurian candidate at all, who looks like a loyal Ukrainian,”
“what the Russians want is a Manchurian candidate who does not appear to be a Manchurian candidate at all, who looks like a loyal Ukrainian, but after the election, will make the concessions that Zelensky may not have made or probably won't have made already.”
“how could you possibly have a budget statement in parliament in the current state that we're in where the chancellor of the exchequer doesn't refer to national security and defense?”
“It's more important than National Health Service. I mean, you take a Ciceronean view of the state, the security of the state is the first responsibility of the government.”
“What the hell does that mean? Article five like security guarantees. I mean, I think the only practical security guarantee personally is a guarantee of air cover”
“I think the only practical security guarantee personally is a guarantee of air cover because the Ukrainians will not accept, I think, boots on the ground and neither will the Russians.”
“the idea that a sovereign nation should agree because of the threat from another nation that its army shouldn't be bigger than a certain size is also of profound difficulty for Ukraine.”
“it looks awfully like appeasement, yet we're being told it isn't. You know, it's terrible cliche, but if it quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, it probably is a duck.”
“And putting a Chinese embassy on top of that in a strategic place in the city of London seems to me an unnecessarily foolish and risky step to take and we should say no.”
“And the Australian government have shown everybody that they can be very tough when they feel that their national security has been threatened by China, which it has on a number of occasions.”
“You know as far as the Russians are concerned because of Ukraine we're in a state of grey warfare with them and they are using all sorts of means which are beneath the level of open conflict to cause, well, mayhem in aspects of the West's daily critical infrastructure,”
“You know as far as the Russians are concerned because of Ukraine we're in a state of grey warfare with them and they are using all sorts of means which are beneath the level of open conflict to cause, well, mayhem in aspects of the West's daily critical infrastructure, daily life,”
“I don't think there's a company that I can think of in the West that's had a bigger and more positive impact on national security, because, you know, what you've done”
“I don't think there's a company that I can think of in the West that's had a bigger and more positive impact on national security, because, you know, what you've done is to sort of pull together the diversity and complexity of a modern democratic security structure”
“pull together the diversity and complexity of a modern democratic security structure and make it, let's say, fully adapt it to the world of data in a way that no one else has seemed to have had the conceptual approach.”
“But for example, your intellectual property must be of massive interest to the Russians and the Chinese. So you almost need a sort of protective organization.”
“I mean, in a way, you're rather like an intelligence and security organization where they have to spend an awful lot of time and energy and talent, as it were, protecting themselves against predation or penetration, to put it not too lightly.”
“What Palantir does brilliantly is you can stick it over the top of all these legacy systems and make them much more intelligent and get them to talk to each other.”
“I mean, I was well aware. I can't remember the exact date, but, I mean, I had retired by then that Peter Thiel and Palantir had the probable solution to this problem.”
“What Palantir does brilliantly is you can stick it over the top of all these legacy systems and make them much more intelligent and get them to talk to each other.”
“I don't think there's a company that I can think of in the West that's had a bigger and more positive impact on national security because, you know, what you've done is pull together the diversity and complexity of a modern democratic security structure”
“the reputation you've earned, the sinister reputation is completely misplaced because people don't really understand what the achievements of Palantir are.”
“You'll be able to aggregate using your technology, more health statistics from the Britain's National Health Service. It will become a powerhouse of medical knowledge in my view or it could.”
“your intellectual property must be a massive interest to the Russians and the Chinese. So you almost need, you know, a sort of protective organization.”
“What's striking about her is that she's really quite young for the appointment, and I hope that's an indicator of the level of her ability as the strongest candidate.”
“She's also a rowing blue from Cambridge. And as someone who's interested in that sport, I'm delighted to see that because it indicates someone with really huge determination.”
“I gather she's really quite a forceful and tough personality, and I think she has the makings of a head of service and will do credit to the fact that she's the first woman to lead British intelligence.”
“when I was head of service, I flew into Libya in an unmarked plane to meet Gaddafi, to negotiate Libya's getting rid of their weapons of mass destruction.”
“The kit having been sold to them by the father of the Pakistani nuclear program AQ Khan, so AQ Khan's KRL laboratories had sold all the kit for the Libyans to start refining uranium and creating HEU and then weaponizing.”
“Chinese navy is building more tonnage in a year to eighteen months each year than composes the whole of the Royal Navy. That's the speed of its expansion.”
“The fact is you cannot get around the security problem that any Chinese corporation is ultimately under the control of the Chinese Communist Party. If in a crisis they are told to jump.”
“Because in every Chinese car there is a cellular module which is connected to the internet of things and that car in a crisis can be reprogrammed by the manufacturer in China.”
“that car in a crisis can be reprogrammed by the manufacturer in China. And you can find your Chinese car, 40 of them, let's say around London immobilized.”
“A lot of our renewable sources of energy are Chinese manufactured with cellular modules in them that can be reprogrammed from China. You could knock out the whole of a North Sea wind farm, bang.”
“Militarily at the moment they are heavily dependent on American support and it can't really be replicated. What they're being given can't be replicated by any other nation.”
“It's quite clear you know that the chemistry between Trump and Zelensky is terrible. They don't like each other, they don't get on with each other and that's been clear for some time but if you want to force Zelensky to accept a ceasefire, if you switch off the intelligence”
“if you want to force Zelensky to accept a ceasefire, if you switch off the intelligence for eight days I think it was and during those eight days they pretty much lost the Kursk salient so you can see immediately the detrimental effect it had militarily on the Ukrainians.”
“So there was a very, very nihilistic group which was represented in most of the major Western services, particularly in The US and to an extent in The UK.”
“those who've worked as espionage agents or agents of The United Kingdom are given a lifelong guarantee of anonymity beyond the grave, so that their families and their relatives' families are not, as it were, ever compromised by what might have been done by preceding generations.”
“And actually, it's because of that scaremongering, if you look at the historical record, that MI6 was started in 1900 It had been a section of specifically naval intelligence before that, and then it was formalized into a separate organization.”
“it's because of that scaremongering, if you look at the historical record, that MI6 was started in 1900 It had been a section of specifically naval intelligence before that, and then it was formalized into a separate organization. So its origins are tied up, strangely, with a certain amount of fiction.”
“Of course, if you're working in a trust environment, when a betrayal happens, it's that much more punishing, and the feelings of personal letdown can be extreme.”
“The Matrokian archive is probably the most revelatory archive that exists to this day of Cold War espionage, and a whole range of cases are described, successful KGB cases, described in detail.”
“The UK is Europe's leading intelligence and security power, and of course we also are one of Europe's leading defense powers, and I think you just have to see what's happened in Ukraine and the way that we would have been able, as it were, to lead on the support for the Ukrainians.”
“I think the fact that we're not constrained by European community membership, by common foreign and defense policy which the EU tries to promote, made a huge difference because we have much more flexibility.”
“There will be, for sure, Russians who will be offering their services to the Americans or to other Western nations because they so fundamentally disagree with Russian policy.”
“So I suppose my counterfactual is, suppose Hitler had followed the advice of some of these scientists and created an atom bomb, rather than putting all his effort scientifically into the development of the V2 rocket, Had he, let's say in 1944,”
“But bear in mind, and people are surprised when I say this, that Russia, in fact, now has more or less the GDP of Italy, somewhere around thirteenth or fourteenth in the world.”
“Russia, in fact, now has more or less the GDP of Italy, somewhere around thirteenth or fourteenth in the world. And it has an aging population. It has a very weak industrial base.”
“two days ago, the Ant payment system, Jack Ma's company that controls massive payment system across the whole of China had a flotation and those of you who follow these things will be aware that it actually beat Aramco in terms of the value of the flotation, $34,000,000,000 was raised”
“at some point in the next two, three, four, five years, I think The United States and China will sit down to work out how a new security system will, as it were, operate across the world to replace Pax Americana.”
“The truth about the Palestinian issue, in my opinion, is that most Arab leaders, or the leadership of most Arab states, lost patience with the Palestinians quite well over the last five to seven years.”
“The truth about the Palestinian issue, in my opinion, is that most Arab leaders, or the leadership of most Arab states, lost patience with the Palestinians”
“The UK is Europe's defense, security and intelligence leader. We have been very careful over the years not to put any of those equities in the hands of the European communion.”
“what we're going to see is some sort of congress of nations along the line of the nineteenth century, where nation states enter alliances or groups, and that will sort of order the international scene.”
“But I think there's a lot about his China policy that's right, because we need an explanation from the Chinese as to what happened. We need an international inquiry.”
“Personally pretty fed up with George Osborne. I think he was extremely uncritical in the way that he was willing to embrace the Chinese relationship.”
“The problem is that British Telecom signed a deal back in 2001, 2002 actually, whilst I was chief with Huawei. And we became very much involved with this company and entangled with them.”
“But just because they are, given, as it were, the importance of five gs in terms of our national infrastructure, I really think we have to call a halt and step back,”
“The fact is, if you understand the nature of Chinese leadership, Chinese intelligence, having China embedded in our five gs is a security problem, a serious one.”
“I think that the importance of the paper is that it is written by two very knowledgeable scientists, one a world leading virologist. Well, both of them are actually. It's been peer reviewed extensively.”
“I think it is a very important contribution to a debate which is now starting about how the virus evolved and how it got out and broke out as a pandemic.”
“I'm not a scientist, I'm not really prepared to speculate very far, but I think this particular article is very important, and I think it will shift the debate.”
“And we have allowed China so much rope that we are now suffering the consequences, and it's time to pull the rape in and to, as it were, tighten the way that we do business.”
“Absolutely. China itself has suffered hugely and probably more than we realize because they will have not published the true figures. I do think that this started as an accident.”
“I do think that this started as an accident. Okay, once it started, there are things about the Chinese behavior which are completely shocking, but there was nothing deliberate about the origins of it.”
“And there were indications that Shirak had received funding from Hussein, both the nineteen ninety five presidential election and the two thousand and two presidential”
“there were indications that Shirak had received funding from Hussein, both the nineteen ninety five presidential election and the two thousand and two presidential”
“Intelligence community, I think meeting the President at the time, and really pledging British support to The U. S. In response to this extraordinary attack.”
“And the senior cohorts of FBI and CIA had flown down to meet us, and this was in June. And we knew from the noise, not from specific humid, from the noise.”
“And we knew from the noise, not from specific humid, from the noise. By noise you mean chatter on Chatter on intercept and chatter that something big was being planned.”
“we knew from the noise, not from specific humid, from the noise. By noise you mean chatter on Chatter on intercept and chatter that something big was being planned.”
“And the people we were talking to, I think, were telling Saddam that the rearmament was much more advanced than it actually was. So our sources themselves were telling Saddam stuff which wasn't entirely accurate.”
“Pretty much was blunt to that. And then I said, but the message I convey from the British and American governments is no deal unless the nuclear is involved.”
“And I will reiterate, absolutely no deal unless that's included. I mean eventually, we end, we go back to thirty. It's now in the early hours of the morning, fly back to Tripoli.”
“And my advice to Blair, which he didn't follow, because I'm not a policy guy, but I said, look, what we should have because bits of the Iraqi army were not particularly contaminated by Saddam Hussein.”
“my advice to Blair, which he didn't follow, because I'm not a policy guy, but I said, look, what we should have because bits of the Iraqi army were not particularly contaminated by Saddam Hussein.”
“Quite honestly if Macron is determined to integrate Europe politically, as he states, he really doesn't want us to be part of it because we would be very effective in stopping his progress.”
“I think we need to think more broadly. We have a very close relationship with The United States, not only in defense and security terms, but also in trading terms.”
“I mean, I I think I could make a convincing argument that in some respects Trump's administration in terms of their relations with The UK have not been altogether as difficult as Obama.”
“I think I could make a convincing argument that in some respects Trump's administration in terms of their relations with The UK have not been altogether as difficult as Obama.”
“I mean, I don't think terrorism in its current form, you know, presents a systemic threat to the nation. It presents, the possibility of horrible happenings,”
“I don't think terrorism in its current form, you know, presents a systemic threat to the nation. It presents, the possibility of horrible happenings, which we are learning how to deal with.”
“I don't think terrorism in its current form, you know, presents a systemic threat to the nation. It presents, the possibility of horrible happenings,”
“Simply shutting the door on migration is not an option. History tells us that human tides are irresistible unless the gravitational pull that causes them is removed.”
“Edward Gibbon elegantly charted how Rome, with all its civic and administrative sophistication and military prowess, could not stop its empire being overrun by the mass movement of Europe's tribes.”
“If Europe cannot act together to persuade a majority of its citizens that it can gain control of its migratory crisis, then the EU will find itself at the mercy of a populist uprising, which is already stirring.”
“So what I think is important in this is the Assange story as such is ultimately a distraction. He's a very undignified flagpant in my opinion for a very important issue.”
“Frankly, it is completely idiotic to suggest that Swedish judiciary is being pressurized by sinister forces. If you really think that you're into conspiracy theories,”
“Wikileaks is disclosing 251,287 US State Department telegrams. 251,287. Now in the past, the journalist who specializes on writing about the State had disclosed 10 State Department telegrams, it would have been a sensation.”
“The fact that these are in the public domain is a consequence of stunning incompetence in terms of the US government's IT security and should never have happened.”
“Now the first thing you do is if you're trying to protect secrets, you don't have any openings on your system. You can read on the screen. Every keystroke is audited.”
“I think the problem with the Muslim brotherhood is it's more interested in Islam than it is in democracy. Democracy. And it is the only significantly organized political party”
“ of removing Saddam Hussein from power, which was interpreted to show that US intelligence on Iraq prior to the war was deliberately falsified, rather than simply mistaken. [ 5 ]
As this issue began to be covered by American media ( Los Angeles Times on 12 May 2005, The Washington Post on 13 May 2005), two other main allegations stemming from the memo arose: that the UN weapons inspection process was manipulated to provide a legal pretext for the war, and that pre-war air strikes were deliberately ramped up in order to soften Iraqi infrastructure in preparation for war, prior to the October U.S. Senate vote permitting the invasion . [ 6 ]
Some elements of the U.S. media have portrayed the document as faked or fraudulent, and Dana Perino referred in her daily White House press briefing on 4 December 2008 to the fact that the Bush administration has ”
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“ to high levels in the Iraqi government directly to Prime Minister, Tony Blair , without first confirming its accuracy. [ 10 ] The investigators found that references to this intelligence in government reports were over-certain and did not adequately stress uncertainties and nuance. The informant was later found to have been lying. The Chilcot report stated that ”
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“ over this trip, which helped Putin rise to power. Dearlove also alleged that in 2000, a KGB officer approached him, seeking Britain's help in boosting Putin's political profile, and this was why Blair met Putin in Russia. [ 180 ]
Blair also hosted Putin in London in April 2000, despite hesitation towards Putin from other world leaders, and opposition from human rights groups over atrocities committed in Chechnya . Blair told Jim Hoagland of The Washington Post that ”
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“ Iraq's weapons programme. [ 44 ]
However, it was noticed that the agent's description of glass containers, not typically used for chemical munitions, resembled the nerve gas inaccurately depicted in glass beads or spheres in The Rock . By February 2003 – a month before the invasion of Iraq – MI6 concluded that their source had been lying ”
“my advice to Blair, which he didn't follow, because I'm not a policy guy, but I said, look, what we should have because bits of the Iraqi army were not particularly contaminated by Saddam Hussein.”
