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Barry McCaffrey Quotes

born 1942 United States

Barry Richard McCaffrey (born 17 November 1942) is a former United States Army officer and current news commentator, professor and business consultant who served in U.S. President Bill Clinton's Cabinet as the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

United States
Military leaders
Political commentators

Also known as: Barry R. McCaffrey, Barry Richard McCaffrey

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Trump is a potential disaster as commander-in-chief—uninformed, volatile, poor judgment. Hard to believe this is the candidate of a major political party.

We tortured people unmercifully. We probably murdered dozens of them during the course of that, both the armed forces and the CIA.

The situation is perilous, uncertain, and extreme – but far from hopeless. The U.S. Armed Forces are a rock. This is the most competent and brilliantly led military in a tactical and operational sense that we have ever fielded.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Barry McCaffrey (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.