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We know that they will continue to plan, ... We know that they will hurt us again. We have to minimize, we have to minimize, we have to minimize their ability to do so because there is no perfection in this business.

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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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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.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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another five years to have the kind of clandestine service our country needs.

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I have analysts in my building who are convinced that that's exactly what they were, ... and analysts with the Defense Intelligence Agency who tell me the opposite.

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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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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 911 deserve better.

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We discovered the extent of Khan's hidden network. We tagged the proliferators. We detected the network stretching from Pakistan to Europe to the Middle East to Asia offering its wares to countries like North Korea and Iran.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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In 1999, the Germans gave us a name -- 'Marwan,' that's it -- and a phone number, ... And we didn't sit on our hands, and I'm not going to go through the rest of it in open session. They didn't give us a first and a last name until after 911.

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... we will neither be completely right nor completely wrong.

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When I took on this job I had a set of conditions to do it because I was essentially taking on the moral hazard, as I've referred to it, for the CIA. That is, it was a CIA conclusion that there were weapons.

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last chance to exact vengeance.

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at that time that was what we thought.

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time and again uncovered plots that are chilling.

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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.

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rendered 70 terrorists to justice.

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