Scheuer, Michael Filmography

• America at Risk
  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Taking Liberties
  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Jihad: The Men and Ideas Behind Al Qaeda
  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself - Interviewee
• Bin Laden's Escape
  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by Michael Scheuer:

"It proves two things. He's not dead. And despite all the things we say about him being isolated and alone, he can clearly dominate the international media when he wants to."

"We asked the president what we should do with the people we capture."

"The exposure of such, either firms or aircraft, just undoes years of cover building and makes America weaker."

"They have always been almost puritanical in talking about setbacks."

"Frankly when I resigned in November, there wasn't anyone."

"You'll have to ask the lawyers."

"is pretty close to being inevitable."

"But at the end of the day, we settled for the worst possibility -- he was there and we didn't do anything."

"The thinking was that he (bin Laden) was in Afghanistan, and he was dangerous. But because he was there, we had a better chance to kill him,"

"There's been a huge wedge between what the analysts think and what the Bush administration wants them to say."

"'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected."

"It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest."

"You couldn't have done this without killing an Arab prince."

"One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him."

"The uniqueness of the unit was more or less that it was focused on a single individual. It was really the first time the agency had done that sort of effort."

"Bin Laden is remarkably eager for Americans to know why he doesn't like us, what he intends to do about it and then following up and doing something about it in terms of military actions."

"No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area."

"I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor."

"Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself."

"A nuclear weapon of some dimension, whether it's actually a nuclear weapon, or a dirty bomb, or some kind of radiological device. Yes, I think it's probably a near thing."