Scandal (TV Series)

No More Blood (2015)

Tina Lifford: CIA Director Lowry

Quotes 

• CIA Director Lowry : During her tenure in the White House, Olivia Pope had a top-level security clearance, which gave her access to highly classified information, much of it red zone, some of it highly dangerous - information that, in the wrong hands, would be catastrophic to our nation's security and international relationships.

  Cyrus Beene : Catastrophic?

  President Fitzgerald Grant : I don't scare easily, Director. I'm going to need specifics.

  CIA Director Lowry : We have done our homework, Sir. Let me paint the picture. If Olivia Pope goes to the Saudis, they'll have our illegal black sites in Amman. Southeast Asia, they'll learn about our anti-terror surveillance programs. We have four countries, four, who will discover the deaths of their leaders were not due to natural causes. And I am sure that England and Germany would be extremely interested to find out we spy on our own allies.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Make your point.

  CIA Director Lowry : My point, sir, is that that's the good news. What is truly terrifying is what they will want for her return. Russia will ask you to close our bases in Turkey, neutering us in that region. Pakistan will ask for drone technology to wipe India off the map once and for all. And ISIS will want the immediate release of hundreds of terrorists hell-bent on killing innocent Americans.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : None of which will come to light if Ms. Pope is extracted safely.

  CIA Director Lowry : In our estimation, there's a 30% chance of that.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Even with our best SEALS on the ground?

  CIA Director Lowry : Even with our best SEALS on the ground.