still dedicated to striking the U.S. homeland. |
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. |
The president had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound, ... These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president. |
the system was blinking red. |
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. |
There is a presence in Baghdad, |
There was no lack of care or focus in the face of one of the greatest dangers our country has ever faced, |
This did not rise to the level of certainty which should be required for presidential speeches, and CIA should have ensured that it was removed, |
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, |
this is the largest release of formerly classified CIA documents ever. It reflects my commitment to be as forward-leaning as possible in releasing information that with the passage of time no longer needs to be protected. |
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 9/11 deserve better. |
time and again uncovered plots that are chilling. |
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. |
We assess that Iraq continues to hide critical (weapons of mass destruction) production equipment and material from U.N. inspectors, |
We didn't steal the secret that told us what the plot was, we didn't recruit the right people or technically collect the data, notwithstanding enormous effort to do so, |