Ronald Kessler
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"Ronald Borek Kessler" is an American journalist and author of 20 non-fiction books about the U.S. Secret Service, FBI, and CIA. Seven of his books have appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list/New York Times Best Seller list.

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The really hard thing is how do you get the information in the first place? How do you get someone to rat on someone like bin Laden? That is so difficult and that requires years and patience and money, ... Inside the CIA.

This isn't like your mother dying, where you grieve for three months and then move on. These people have had their entire world shifted beneath them.

We plan to stay with this group over the next two years so that we can keep our fingers on the psychological pulse of this population.

It's a great loss for Harvard and a great gain for Yale. I came to Harvard in part because of him. He's a wonderful guy and a great scientist.

Bush's aides made the point that not everyone reads the Washington Post and the New York Times. Rather, the Bush people were like antimatter: rather than having the normal inclination to feed their egos by garnering attention, they had the opposite orientation and were nearly impervious to press criticism.

Usually, it's hard to get organized before the fact, but we're hoping that this is the beginning of a cumulative process that will enable us to learn as much as we can about disasters.