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"In all the world, and in all time, no one has invented a way of procuring intelligence, and counter-intelligence, other than through such a network.
John Adams wrote of Cushing that "[He] is steady and constant and busy in the interest of liberty and the opposition, and is famed for secrecy and his talent for procuring intelligence".
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Military Intelligence Firm: A firm that procures intelligence through direct or indirect interrogation, aerial or ground surveillance, or decoding and analyzing data.
This he showed to every visitor, taking it down to read aloud: "The necessity of procuring good intelligence is apparent and need not be further urged".
The rise of nationalism was accompanied by the growth of standing armies and professional diplomats as well as by the establishment of organizations and procedures for procuring foreign intelligence.
America's history of spying began in the beginning, with George Washington, who famously declared "the necessity of procuring good intelligence is apparent and need not be further urged".
On 26 July 1777, at the height of the American Revolutionary War, he wrote to Colonel Elias Dayton, who ran a spy ring in Staten Island, urging secrecy: 'The necessity of procuring good Intelligence, is apparent and need not be further urged.
Such a subversion of authority becomes exceedingly magnified when we catch it, as Zero Dark Thirty shows it, emanating from the government halls--or the detention camps and black sites--of world powers, especially those devoted to the vain attempt at procuring reliable intelligence and an insular sense of security.
But the context makes plain that this was intelligence procured without torture.
For as we see throughout the film, even the most reliable intelligence procured by the richest and most powerful nation in the world is met with inexorable doubt and results in irreconcilable disillusionment.
No useful intelligence was procured through the abuses, the Senate report concluded.
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