Memorable Quotes from Fredric Lehne
2 quotesControl and Consequences in High-Stakes Scenario
Cyrus the Virus
Say there was a disturbance, but you've got it under control. Say it, or I will kill you.
[holding the pilot at gunpoint]
Pilot
Without me, you got nobody to fly the plane.
Cyrus
I never think that far ahead.
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Assessing Certainty in Intelligence Operations
CIA Director
I'm about to go look the President in the eye, and what I'd like to know, no fucking bullshit, is where everyone stands on this thing. Now, very simply, is he there, or is he not fucking there?
Deputy Director
We all come at this through the filter of our own past experiences. I remember "Iraq WMD" very clearly, I fronted that, and I can tell you the case for that was much stronger than this case.
CIA Director
A fuckin yes or a no.
Deputy Director
We don't deal in certainty, we deal in probability. I'd say there's a sixty percent probability he's there.
The Wolf
I concur. Sixty percent.
George
I'm at eighty percent. Their ] is what convinces me.
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CIA Director
You guys ever agree on anything?
Dan
Well, I agree with sixty, we're basing this mostly on detainee reporting and I spent a bunch of time in those rooms. Who knows? I'd say it's a soft sixty, sir. I'm virtually certain there's some high value target there, I'm just not sure it's bin Laden.
CIA Director
This is a cluster-fuck, isn't it?
Jeremy
I'd like to know what Maya thinks...
Deputy Director
We're all incorporating her assessment into ours...
Maya
A hundred percent he's there. Okay, fine, ninety-five percent because I know how certainty freaks you guys out, but it's a hundred.
[interrupting]
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