"Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids……" — George Tenet
"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 doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions."
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14 Quotes by George Tenet
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One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they Al Qaeda intend.
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To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful…
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It's a slam-dunk case!
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You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world.…
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I'm Greek, and we're conspiratorial by nature.
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As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought…
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By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope…
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I am convinced the next major attack against the United States may well be conducted by people with Asian or…
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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…
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The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never…
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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…
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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…
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