George Tenet
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"George John Tenet" was the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) for the United States Central Intelligence Agency, and he is Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University.

Tenet held the position as the DCI from July 1997 to July 2004, making him the second-longest-serving director in the agency's history—behind Allen Welsh Dulles—as well as one of the few DCIs to serve under two President of the United States/U.S. presidents of opposing Political party/political parties. He played a key role in overseeing the intelligence behind the Iraq War.

In February 2008, he became a managing director at investment bank Allen & Company.

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[What I learned...or was reminded of, because I probably heard all this when it first came out...is that George Tenet felt his job was to present the facts but NOT to add any commentary regarding the world in which those facts existed.] After all, ... such comments would get into making policy. And that wasn't my job.

We protect the rights of Americans and their privacy, ... We do not violate them and we never will.

This did not rise to the level of certainty which should be required for presidential speeches, and CIA should have ensured that it was removed.

When I took on this job I had a set of conditions to do it because I was essentially taking on the moral hazard, as I've referred to it, for the CIA. That is, it was a CIA conclusion that there were weapons.

If one side does something, and the other side does something within the span of a security meeting, we can say we are into Tenet.

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.

The Tenet work plan requires a 100 percent effort by Chairman Arafat to end the violence and the terror, and I would expect the 100 percent effort to begin immediately.

The background ... makes it even more troubling that the 16 words eventually made it into the State of the Union speech, ... This was a mistake.

When people use the word 'failure,' failure means no focus, no attention, no discipline, and those were not present in what we or the FBI did here or around the world.