George Tenet
George Tenet
George John Tenetwas the Director of Central Intelligencefor the United States Central Intelligence Agency, and he is Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 January 1953
CountryUnited States of America
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What we learned in the five or six weeks leading up to the New Year's celebrations, ... that there is an infrastructure out there that is perhaps bigger than we anticipated.
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Over the next 15 years ... our cities will face ballistic missile threats from a wider variety of actors -- North Korea, probably Iran and possibly Iraq,
I think the declassified answer, is yes, they can do that,
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lawless zones, veritable no man's lands ... where extremist movements find shelter and can win the breathing space to grow.
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His network is now answering to the world for years of nuclear profiteering,
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If one side does something, and the other side does something within the span of a security meeting, we can say we are into Tenet.
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Let me say this. I'm the Director of -- I'm the Director of Central Intelligence. The President of the United States sees me six days a week, every day. I tell him what the American intelligence community believes,
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I still lie awake at night thinking about everything that could have been, that wasn't done to stop 9/11. To the 9/11 families, I said, you deserve better from your entire government. All of us.
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The President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound... These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president.
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time and again uncovered plots that are chilling.
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We know that they will continue to plan, ... We know that they will hurt us again. We have to minimize, we have to minimize, we have to minimize their ability to do so because there is no perfection in this business.
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When I took on this job I had a set of conditions to do it because I was essentially taking on the moral hazard, as I've referred to it, for the CIA. That is, it was a CIA conclusion that there were weapons.
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We protect the rights of Americans and their privacy, ... We do not violate them and we never will.
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I am convinced the next major attack against the United States may well be conducted by people with Asian or African faces, not the ones that many Americans are alert to.