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The Weblog at The View from the Core - Fri. 02/06/04 07:42:51 AM
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George Tenet Speaks Up At Georgetown University yesterday: CIA Director George Tenet gave a speech at Georgetown University on Thursday [Feb. 5]. The transcript follows. TENET: I have come here today to talk to you and to the American people about something important to our nation and central to our future: how the United States intelligence community evaluated Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs over the past decade, leading to a national intelligence estimate in October of 2002. I want to tell you about our information and how we reached our judgments. I want to tell you what I think, honestly and directly. There's several reasons to do this: because the American people deserve to know, because intelligence has never been more important to the security of our country. 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. Both here and around the world, the men and women of American intelligence are performing courageously, often brilliantly, to support our military, to stop terrorism and to break up networks of proliferation. The risks are always high. Success and perfect outcomes are never guaranteed. But there's one unassailable fact: We will always call it as we see it. Our professional ethic demands no less.... I don't know about you, Faithful Reader, but I'm glad I live in a world where we no longer depend on NYT/AP/CBS et al. to tell us what somebody has said somewhere, some time with, perhaps, the very carefully selected excerpt or two. We can now read just about anything for ourselves, almost as it happens. Lane Core Jr. CIW P Fri. 02/06/04 07:42:51 AM |
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