... we will neither be completely right nor completely wrong. |
[At the CIA, Director George Tenet issued a statement saying,] Our role is to call it like we see it. ... That is exactly what was done. |
[The fact that the United States is] arguably the world's most powerful nation, ... a larger target for those who don't share our interests, values or beliefs. |
[THIELMANN: When it came to presenting the intelligence community's formal judgment on matters White House officials had already publicly addressed--] especially Iraq's nuclear weapons capabilities ... defended very stubbornly the erroneous CIA interpretation. |
[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. |
Admiral Jeremiah is the perfect person to lead such a review, ... His credentials are impeccable and his credibility is unquestioned. |
and those debates were spelled out in the estimate. |
another five years to have the kind of clandestine service our country needs. |
at that time that was what we thought. |
Because we viewed the reporting on such acquisition attempts to be inconclusive, we expressed reservations about its inclusion, but our colleagues said they were confident in their reports and left it in their document, |
By no stretch of the imagination am I going to tell you that I've solved all the problems of the community in terms of integrating and in lashing it up, ... But we've made an enormous amount of progress. |
Cord defined the concept, doctrine and implementation of covert action on behalf of the security and interests of our nation, |
Foreign nations have begun to include information warfare in their war college curricula with respect to both defensive and offensive applications. |
haunts all of us to this day. |
His network is now answering to the world for years of nuclear profiteering, |