In 1999, the Germans gave us a name -- 'Marwan,' that's it -- and a phone number, ... And we didn't sit on our hands, and I'm not going to go through the rest of it in open session. They didn't give us a first and a last name until after 911.
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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.George Tenet
This has only succeeded in buying time against an increasingly dangerous threat. The difficulty in destroying this threat lies in the fact that our efforts will not be enough to overcome the fundamental causes of the phenomenon -- poverty, alienation, disaffection and ethnic hatreds deeply rooted in history,
George Tenet
Three thousand people died, ... No matter how hard we worked or how desperately we tried, it was not enough. The victims and the families of 911 deserve better.
George Tenet
We know that they will continue to plan, ... We know that they will hurt us again. We have to minimize, we have to minimize, we have to minimize their ability to do so because there is no perfection in this business.
George Tenet
His network is now answering to the world for years of nuclear profiteering,
George Tenet
Over the next 15 years ... our cities will face ballistic missile threats from a wider variety of actors -- North Korea, probably Iran and possibly Iraq,
George Tenet
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