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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at that time that was what we thought.
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time and again uncovered plots that are chilling.
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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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this is the largest release of formerly classified CIA documents ever. It reflects my commitment to be as forward-leaning as possible in releasing information that with the passage of time no longer needs to be protected.
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This has only succeeded in buying time against an increasingly dangerous threat. The difficulty in destroying this threat lies in the fact that our efforts will not be enough to overcome the fundamental causes of the phenomenon -- poverty, alienation, disaffection and ethnic hatreds deeply rooted in history,
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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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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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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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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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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.