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This quote is just one of 9 total George Tenet quotes in our collection. George Tenet is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.
[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.
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.
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.
This quote is just one of 9 total George Tenet quotes in our collection. George Tenet is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.