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Never break faith with the truth.
George Tenet -
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 after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise.
George Tenet
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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 included in the text written for the president.
George Tenet -
You deserve better from your entire government, all of us.
George Tenet -
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'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us.
George Tenet -
We don't torture people. Let me say that again to you. We don't torture people, OK.
George Tenet -
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 reveal.
George Tenet -
One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they Al Qaeda intend.
George Tenet
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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.
George Tenet -
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.
George Tenet