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CBS News
April 23, 2018
Michael Hayden, George Tenet, Porter Goss and John McLaughlin – signed the letter, as did three former directors of national intelligence and two former secretaries of state. As for where she stands in supporting Haspel's confirmation ahead of her Capitol Hill hearing, Feinstein said, "I'm going to do myÃâà...
Fairfield Daily Republic
April 22, 2018
“She is a true intelligence professional who brings care, integrity and a commitment to the rule of law to her work every day,” the letter said. Among the signatories were former CIA Directors John Brennan, Leon E. Panetta, Michael Hayden and George Tenet, as well as Michael Morell, who served twice as acting director.
KUOW News and Information
April 19, 2018
George Tenet, both as deputy and then ultimately the director of central intelligence, helped run the Middle East Peace Process first for the Clinton administration and then the Bush administration. So it's not that it's never been done, but it's usually not done because there's some downside or some risk.
Common Dreams
April 11, 2018
George Tenet was the CIA director from 1997 to 2004. Not only did he help the Bush administration lie America into a war in Iraq, but he also oversaw the institution and development of the torture program. Reports on interrogations of detainees were regularly sent to his desk. He had no objections. To thisÃâà...
CBS News
April 10, 2018
Eight former heads or acting heads of the CIA who served in Republican and Democrat administrations – including John Brennan, Leon Panetta, Michael Morell, Gen. Michael Hayden, George Tenet, Porter Goss and John McLaughlin – signed the letter, as did three former directors of national intelligenceÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
April 10, 2018
Dearlove later spoke of a meeting in Washington just beforehand with the head of the CIA, George Tenet: "Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixedÃâà...
CNN
April 9, 2018
The top intelligence officials include former CIA Directors John Brennan, Leon Panetta, Jose Rodriguez, George Tenet, Michael Hayden and former President Barack Obama's Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. "Ms. Haspel's qualifications to become CIA Director match or exceed those of mostÃâà...
The American Conservative
April 4, 2018
Twelve days after 9/11, on the night of September 23, 2001, the CIA's Islamabad station chief, Robert Grenier, received a telephone call from his boss, Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet. “Listen, Bob,” Tenet said, “we're meeting tomorrow at Camp David to discuss our war strategy in Afghanistan.
Daily Reckoning
March 29, 2018
Has the recent Facebook data scandal got you a little paranoid about sharing information on the internet? I don't blame you. After all, Facebook has access to some of your most personal information. I'm talking about every message you've ever sent or been sent, every contact in your phone and evenÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 20, 2018
"All the legal arguments applicable to [former CIA Director George] Tenet apply to her as well. Succinctly put, torture during war time is a war crime," he said. Secret Polish CIA Prison. Ãâé AP Photo/. US Watchdogs Urge Senate to Screen Gina Haspel's 'Torture' Background. The scale and repeated nature ofÃâà...
RT
March 20, 2018
... Iraqi research and development facilities over the years, had determined that there was no evidence of operational WMD left in Iraq. However, that didn't stop the Central Intelligence Agency, then led by George Tenet, to publish in October 2002 a National Intelligence Estimate that Iraq indeed had WMD.
Truthdig
March 17, 2018
Although CIA director George Tenet is infamous for telling President George W. Bush in December 2002 that it would be a “slam dunk” to provide intelligence to take to the American people to support the invasion of Iraq, it was McLaughlin who actually delivered the “slam dunk” briefing at the White HouseÃâà...
RollingStone.com
March 5, 2018
Creeps like Ashcroft, wraithlike Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and CIA chief George Tenet. Oh, and then-FBI director Robert Mueller, who also oversaw a sweeping effort to interview thousands of Arabs in America in a program that at the time was compared to ourÃâà...
Irish America
March 1, 2018
He was director of the agency from March 2013 to January 2017 and prior to that, his career included stints as intelligence briefer for President Bill Clinton, top deputy to CIA director George Tenet, director of the National Counterterrorism Center during George W. Bush's presidency, and chief counterterrorism advisor toÃâà...
CNN
August 6, 2013
(CNN) Here is a look at the life of George Tenet, former director of the CIA. Personal: Birth date: January 5, 1953. Birth place: Flushing, NY. Birth name: George John Tenet. Father: John Tenet, restaurant owner. Read More. Mother: Evangelia Tenet. Marriage: A. Stephanie Glakas-Tenet. Children: JohnÃâà...
Antiwar.com
December 31, 1999
Put bluntly, the disastrous invasion of Iraq, which was sold on the basis of lies told by President George W. Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney, [CIA Director George Tenet,] Secretary of State Colin Powell, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, national-security adviser Condoleezza Rice, and others mightÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
December 31, 1999
The special counsel who is investigating connections between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign is known as a straight arrow — “a high Protestant with a locked jaw, blue blazer … khaki pants, penny loafers, maybe a little Vitalis and Old Spice to boot,” in the words of former CIA Director George Tenet.
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