George Tenet Quotes

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• One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they Al Qaeda intend.
• To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.
• It's a slam-dunk case!
• You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All…
• I'm Greek, and we're conspiratorial by nature.
• As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need…
• By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to…
• Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it…
• I am convinced the next major attack against the United States may well be conducted by people with Asian or African faces, not the ones…
• 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…
• The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth.…
• We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America.…
• When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training…
• The President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound... These 16 words should never have been included in the…

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