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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.

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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 we work to reveal.

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Enemy

United States

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

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Information

War

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.

Kids

Responsibility

Teaching

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 that many Americans are alert to.

Asian

People

United States

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

Greek

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 and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible.

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Ties

Two Sides

It’s a slam-dunk case!

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Slam

Stupid

Never break faith with the truth.

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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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Clouds

Mushrooms

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Quotes by George Tenet

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.

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.

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

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.

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 that many Americans are alert to.

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

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 and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible.

It’s a slam-dunk case!

Never break faith with the truth.

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

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