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George Tenet

(1953) Politician United States

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George Tenet is a politician from the United States, best known for At the Center of the Storm.

Quick Facts About George Tenet

Born: January 5, 1953
Nationality: United States
Profession: Politician
Notable works: At the Center of the Storm

About George Tenet

George John Tenet is an American intelligence official and academic who served as the director of central intelligence (DCI) for the United States Central Intelligence Agency, as well as a distinguished professor in the practice of diplomacy at Georgetown University.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Presidential Medal of Freedom Ellis Island Medal of Honor

Quotes by George Tenet

You deserve better from your entire government, all of us.

Deserve

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You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all…

Broken

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One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they Al Qaeda intend.

Al qaeda

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Never break faith with the truth.

Break

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As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would…

Capability

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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…

Als

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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…

About

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We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational…

Al qaeda

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Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough…

Action

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I'm Greek, and we're conspiratorial by nature.

Greek

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When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of…

Agency

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The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith…

Break

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It's a slam-dunk case!

Cases

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By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny…

Deals

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Foreign nations have begun to include information warfare in their war college curricula with respect to both defensive and offensive applications.

Application

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To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of…

Care

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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,…

Asian

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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…

Been

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