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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raised several concerns about the fragmentary nature of the intelligence with National Security Council colleagues. Some of the language was changed.
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I have analysts in my building who are convinced that that's exactly what they were, ... and analysts with the Defense Intelligence Agency who tell me the opposite.
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Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days, ... But these times demand it because the alternative -- politicized, haphazard evaluation without the benefit of time and facts -- may well result in an intelligence community that is damaged and a country that is more at risk.
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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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and those debates were spelled out in the estimate.
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another five years to have the kind of clandestine service our country needs.
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The Tenet work plan requires a 100 percent effort by Chairman Arafat to end the violence and the terror, and I would expect the 100 percent effort to begin immediately.
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at that time that was what we thought.
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Cord defined the concept, doctrine and implementation of covert action on behalf of the security and interests of our nation,
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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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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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time and again uncovered plots that are chilling.
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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.