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George Tenet
American
Public Servant
Born:
Jan 5
,
1953
Against
Alert
Government
Intelligence
People
You
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You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken.
George Tenet
Day
Broken
You
Trust
World
End Of The Day
Honor
Reputation
Only
Know
Well
Built
Go
End
Personal
Anymore
The Only Thing
Your
Thing
I'm Greek, and we're conspiratorial by nature.
George Tenet
Nature
Greek
I still lie awake at night thinking about everything that could have been, that wasn't done to stop 9/11. To the 9/11 families, I said, you deserve better from your entire government. All of us.
George Tenet
Government
You
Lie
Better
Thinking
Everything
Entire
About
Could
Said
Still
Been
Families
Done
Stop
Us
Your
Awake
Deserve
Night
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
Work
Hope
Intelligence
Enemies
Unknown
States
Hidden
Definition
Deliberately
Unclear
Reveal
Deals
Deny
United
United States
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
Truth
Faith
You
Culture
People
Intelligence
Our
Out
Tell
Only
Never
Because
Up
Officers
Break
Us
Stand
Stand Up
Who
Ever
Drag
We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period.
George Tenet
Control
Complicity
Direction
Could
Never
Period
Operational
Verify
Iraqi
America
Authority
Any
Against
Act
Al
Al-Qaeda
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
Service
War
Intelligence
Thought
Nation
Past
Cold
Other
Cold War
Analytical
Our
Seven
Collection
Would
Powerful
Longer
Over
Been
Years
After
Expertise
Capabilities
Depth
Many
Satellite
Technical
Rebuilding
Need
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
You
Patience
Intelligence
Care
Patient
Difficult
Topic
Thoughtful
Rarely
Takes
Days
Like
Understand
Hear
Iraq
Discussion
Unfortunately
Careful
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