Talk:Dennis C. Blair

message: I added a bit on Blair's role in the 1999 East Timorese crisis where he reportedly disobeyed orders from the Clinton administration. There has been a good deal of public debate about whether Obama's appointees will carry out policies that Obama might favor (e.g. , ), and many people who will read this Wikipedia article will read it for background on someone who is reported (, , ) to be Obama's appointee for a top-ranking national security post. So the issue of whether Blair disobeyed orders from the Clinton administration is worth mentioning. I included a link to a contemporaneous magazine article reporting the incident. RandallRs (talk) 17:41, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Blair's role in East Timorese crisis

message: There was a genealogical article on the Blair family in England in America.
Keith Ellington (talk) 11:19, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Several Important Issues to Be Considered In the Context of Various Annapolis Graduates Taking Over in Important Executive Roles in the United States Govenment 

message: This article contains a quote attributed to Dennis Blair, but I cannot find this quote in the official congressional transcript of the hearing in which the statement was allegedly made.
The full quote is: “Being a U.S. citizen will not spare an American from getting assassinated by military or intelligence operatives … If we think that direct action will involve killing an American, we get specific permission to do that.”
The first part, "" is not present in the official transcript, which is here: 
There are several secondary media sources on the internet, some of which are cited for this quote, which do actually attribute the quote as written to Dennis Blair, but I believe those sources to be wrong based on the transcript.
It is possible that the alleged quotation came from this article: , which contains that text, but not as a quotation.  It contains the text as a part of the article content, and thus the quote would be attributed to Noel Brinkerhoff, the author.
Surlyhacker (talk) 21:57, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur with your research, and I have corrected the quote. --NilsTycho (talk) 22:56, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It sometimes happens that official transcripts are not the most reliable record of what is said in Congressional proceedings, as readers of the much praised biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson by Robert Caro know.  In fact, they are often cleaned up for various reasons and it would be naive to pretend otherwise.  The fact that the quote does not appear in the official transcript should not preclude its use, since it was heard by many, attested as a quote by responsible journalists, and widely commented.  (Moreover, I believe that there is little question but that this represents official U.S. policy at present.)  174.24.254.62 (talk) 23:51, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accuracy of quote "Being a U.S. citizen will not spare an American from getting assassinated by military or intelligence operatives" 

message: Quote: 
"In testimony before the Senate intelligence panel in February of last year, Blair appeared to startle some lawmakers by asserting that the gravest national security threat posed to Washington was not terrorism, but the deepening crisis of world capitalism, which he described as the most severe in “decades if not centuries.” He warned that with it came the threats of a resurgence of the “violent extremism” of the 1920s and 1930s and “regime-threatening instability.”"
http://inteldaily.com/2010/05/dennis-blair-forced-to-retir/
--Ihaveabutt (talk) 18:58, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intel chief Dennis Blair warns threat of capitalism to national security 

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just added archive links to  on Dennis C. Blair. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add  after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add  to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/20080605061839/http://alpha.dickinson.edu:80/departments/polsc/BradleyChair.htm to http://alpha.dickinson.edu/departments/polsc/BradleyChair.htm
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/20070625121821/http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/dclm/bradlynew.htm to http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/dclm/bradlynew.htm
When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.
Cheers.—cyberbot IITalk to my owner:Online 19:51, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified 2 external links on Dennis C. Blair. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20090202072342/http://dni.gov/blair_bio.htm to http://www.dni.gov/blair_bio.htm
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20090202072342/http://dni.gov/blair_bio.htm to http://www.dni.gov/blair_bio.htm
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 21:14, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified 9 external links on Dennis C. Blair. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20131022151117/http://aspensecurityforum.org/2013-speakers to http://aspensecurityforum.org/2013-speakers
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20131019135246/http://www.secureenergy.org/energy-security-leadership-council/admiral-dennis-c-blair-us-navy-ret to http://www.secureenergy.org/energy-security-leadership-council/admiral-dennis-c-blair-us-navy-ret
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20110726025837/http://familyforest.com/file_download/1/Admiral+Dennis+Blair.pdf to http://familyforest.com/file_download/1/Admiral+Dennis+Blair.pdf
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20131019150829/http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/pdfs/111125.pdf to http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/pdfs/111125.pdf
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20170227114008/http://www.stltoday.com/business/counterfeiters-hackers-cost-us-up-to-billion-a-year/article_ef473724-eb4e-5c4a-bec6-4ce35bee8b45.html to http://www.stltoday.com/business/counterfeiters-hackers-cost-us-up-to-billion-a-year/article_ef473724-eb4e-5c4a-bec6-4ce35bee8b45.html
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20090219023834/http://www.dni.gov/20090130_letter.pdf to http://www.dni.gov/20090130_letter.pdf
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20090407143928/http://www.dni.gov/interviews/20090326_interview.pdf to http://www.dni.gov/interviews/20090326_interview.pdf
*Added  tag to http://www.hstoday.us/content/view/8689/149/
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20101221225028/http://www.afcea.org/signal/articles/templates/intel_blog_template.asp?articleid=2148&zoneid=211 to http://www.afcea.org/signal/articles/templates/intel_blog_template.asp?articleid=2148&zoneid=211
*Added archive https://www.webcitation.org/69wvYURbH?url=http://www.acus.org/natosource/barack-obama-overruled-no-spying-pact-france to http://www.acus.org/natosource/barack-obama-overruled-no-spying-pact-france
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 06:24, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified