Stephen Hadley
Stephen Hadley
Stephen John Hadleywas the 21st U.S. Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, serving under President George W. Bush...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth13 February 1947
CountryUnited States of America
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an issue of our intelligence, and obviously we need to do a better job of our intelligence.
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roughly the same intelligence that the Clinton administration saw.
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Obviously, we didn't have the intelligence we needed in that particular instance. In some sense, those countries that pursue weapons of mass destruction in secret also learned an important lesson - that there are risks of that kind of behavior and that kind of activity.
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We all looked at the same intelligence, and most people -- on the intelligence -- reached the same conclusion.
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I think the point that we need to emphasize here was, allegations now that the president somehow manipulated intelligence, somehow misled the American people are flat wrong.
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Our statements about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein were based on the aggregation of intelligence from a number of sources and represented the collective view of the intelligence community,
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That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.
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The intelligence was clear in terms of the weapons of mass destruction.
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What the Congress and the companies are able to work out, we'll support and cooperate with so long as it does not involve a summary decision by the Congress that blocks this transaction.
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We went from a summit that was supposed to bury the FTAA to a summit in which 34 countries actually talk in terms of enhanced trade. I would say that is some real progress.
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We went from a summit that was supposed to bury FTAA, to a summit in which all 34 countries actually talked in terms of an FTAA. Recognizing there are challenges, that is some real progress.
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We think, in the end of the day, China also faces a strategic choice: whether they are going to follow up the increasing amounts of economic freedom they're affording to the people and whether they are willing to respond to the inevitable demands of their people for political freedom as well.
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The stop in the Slovak Republic is a nice opportunity for the president to remind Europe and the rest of the world of the progress we've made together in that part of the world,
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The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence . . . is not in their interests.