National Intelligence
We recognize that our national intelligence agencies have made serious misjudgments in the past. However, Abraham Lincoln said it best:
Our national intelligence agencies are incredible. The players are not perfect – no organization made up of humans is – but our intelligence community is filled with committed patriots who sacrifice so much of themselves to keep this country safe.
We have the utmost trust, respect and appreciation for each of these agencies. Every single one of us owes these men and women an enormous debt of gratitude.
It’s incredibly important we always ensure a seamless process of information-sharing between our intelligence agencies and other law enforcement. We must also stop over-classifying information and significantly improve the system that makes, safeguards, and discloses secrets – as always, being vigilant about maintaining an appropriate balance between security and liberty.
Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; as bad and good. Let us, therefore, study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from, and none of them as wrongs to be revenged.