The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

- Robert Baer

There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.

- Robert Baer

The first suicide bombing that entered my consciousness was the Beirut embassy bombing. It was very personal. I'd been in the embassy and I knew most…

- Robert Baer

The US have dealt with Iran. I'm not saying attack it; I'm saying we should have taken it seriously. The Iranian connection to 9/11 is much stronger …

- Robert Baer

It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.

- Robert Baer

I don't trust American intelligence. You look at the torture report from the Senate: People inside the CIA are saying that it doesn't work, and we're…

- Robert Baer

Egypt is the next domino to fall and, as they say, so goes Egypt so goes the Middle East.

- Robert Baer

Bethlehem was God with us, Calvary was God for us, and Pentecost is God in us.

- Robert Baer

I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the front pages of the American press.

- Robert Baer