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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Iraq... has also had contacts with al-Qaida. Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides' mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible.
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The background ... makes it even more troubling that the 16 words eventually made it into the State of the Union speech, ... This was a mistake.
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I'm in the middle of a big debate,
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In 1999, the Germans gave us a name -- 'Marwan,' that's it -- and a phone number, ... And we didn't sit on our hands, and I'm not going to go through the rest of it in open session. They didn't give us a first and a last name until after 9/11.
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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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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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This did not rise to the level of certainty which should be required for presidential speeches, and CIA should have ensured that it was removed,
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Admiral Jeremiah is the perfect person to lead such a review, ... His credentials are impeccable and his credibility is unquestioned.
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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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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 am greatly saddened by the death of Cord Meyer, a passionate defender of freedom around the world,