Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask…

- George Tenet

To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of inte…

- George Tenet

When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training prog…

- George Tenet

Never break faith with the truth.

- George Tenet

I'm Greek, and we're conspiratorial by nature.

- George Tenet

We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against Ame…

- George Tenet

One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they [Al Qaeda] intend.

- George Tenet

You deserve better from your entire government, all of us.

- George Tenet

By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work …

- George Tenet