Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days, ... But these times demand it because the alternative -- politicized, haphazard evaluation without the benefit of time and facts -- may well result in an intelligence community that is damaged and a country that is more at risk.
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raised several concerns about the fragmentary nature of the intelligence with National Security Council colleagues. Some of the language was changed.
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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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We must eradicate these organizations by denying them the source of financing, their sanctuary and eliminating their ability to hijack charitable organizations for terrorist purposes. We must be prepared for a long war, and we must not falter.
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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.
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at that time that was what we thought.
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