Ambassador Sales: “‘[When] Qurayshi was captured and interrogated by US forces in Iraq [in 2008] … ‘he sang like a canary.’ … ‘Investigators gained enormous insights about [Al Qaeda in Iraq] because of what he told them.’”
Ambassador Sales: "Any time you impose sanctions, you impose great costs on the target -- but you also have the risk of blowback harms on yourself and on your friends and allies."
Ambassador Sales on Fox Business: "The first thing we have to do is start playing offense...That means things like sending more weapons to Ukraine to allow them to defend themselves."
Ambassador Sales: "When one side of an agreement breaches it serially and flagrantly like the Taliban did, I think the Biden administration would have been well within its rights to say: We’re not bound by it either."
Ambassador Sales: “Just because it’s out of sight and out of mind, which it is for the vast majority of Americans, doesn’t mean it’s not a very serious problem."
Ambassador Sales: "Whether you are talking about military capabilities or key civilian-sector counterterrorism tools like sanctions, like border security, like law enforcement – across the board the US is significantly safer today than 20 years ago. "
Ambassador Sales: “For counterterrorism strikes, you need assets in theater: good signals intelligence, but also human intelligence networks operating on the ground — spies who are prepared to tell us secrets that put their own lives at risk."
Ambassador Sales: “The Taliban have made clear that they intend to govern Afghanistan as a terror state.”
Ambassador Sales on Fox Business Tonight: "Every day that American citizens are stranded behind enemy lines in Taliban controlled Afghanistan, is a day that their lives are at risk."
Ambassador Sales on Fox News @ Night: "We're not going to have the intelligence capabilities in [Afghanistan] that we would need to find where the terrorists are operating and take action against them."
Ambassador Sales: “We should brace ourselves for more chaos and disorder. It’s very difficult to do an evacuation at the same time you're doing a military retrograde, and that’s essentially the situation we’re in now.”
Ambassador Sales: "Afghanistan after the U.S. withdrawal will be a permissive environment for all sorts of terrorist groups, even those hostile to the Taliban.”
Ambassador Sales on Sky News: "All they were proposing to President Biden was keep 2,500 troops in country, taking no casualties and providing the backbone and the air support that the Afghan army needs to hold off the Taliban onslaught."
Ambassador Sales: "The U.S. and Kazakhstan worked together to 'build [terrorist reintegration] programs based on the state-of-the-art knowledge from fields like childhood trauma, from educational experts, from religious authorities.'”
Ambassador Sales: "Why would Hezbollah stockpile ammonium nitrate on European soil? The answer is clear. [So it] can conduct major terror attacks whenever its masters in Tehran deem it necessary."
Ambassador Sales: "We've encouraged our partners to recognize reality and impose sanctions on the entirety of Hezbollah. Increasingly, they are doing exactly that."
Ambassador Sales: “The Chinese Communist Party is waging war on religion. It is trying to stamp out the ethnic, linguistic, cultural and religious identities of the people that it’s been targeting.”
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