The Text of C.I.A. Director George J. Tenet's Speech at Georgetown University Feb. 5, 2004)

Complete Speech Text | February 5, 2004 | George J. Tenet

[Huck]

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[ken5050]

Thanks for posting...one questio I have never seen raised publicly....where are all the SCUDS?..just before the war...all reports said that Iraq had 60 or so SCUDS and about a half dozen mobile launchers...that's why the Aussie SF troops were deployed months before the war started..in the Iraqi wester desert.the so-called "SCUD box"..to find, target, and destroy themm..remember how they found the two airfields with the buried planes?..yet there has not been ONE report that I can recall or a captured/destroyed missile or launcher...and these are huge..if they tried to drive them to Syria..reconnaissance platforms would have found them....so, where are they?... methinks, FWIW, there's much more to find....and we will...

[Jeff Chandler]

Here's the rat media news headline (taken from the speech):

CIA Director: No Imminent threat

[smiley]

"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 programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency.

It will take an additional five years to finish the job of rebuilding our clandestine service, but the results so far have been obvious."

AND WE ALL KNOW WHO WAS PRESIDENT AT THAT TIME, DON'T WE!

[Spunky]

Thanks for posting. Bookmarked for later reading.

[McGruff]

Rush thought this sound bite was worth replaying:

As we meet here today, the Iraq Survey Group is continuing its important search for people and data. And despite some public statements, we are nowhere near 85 percent finished. The men and women who work in that dangerous environment are adamant about that fact.

[Sacajaweau]

Excellent!

If we don't dry up the sources, Homeland Security won't do a damn bit of good.

[Hunble]

Thanks for posting this. Do you have the source?

When I send Libs a link, I prefer that it be from the original source instead of freerepublic.

They tend to read the text, instead of immediately deleting my e-mail.

[quidnunc]

Hunble wrote: Thanks for posting this. Do you have the source? When I send Libs a link, I prefer that it be from the original source instead of freerepublic. They tend to read the text, instead of immediately deleting my e-mail.

The speech is by a public official delivered pubicly, and therefore is not copyrightable.

However, if it were to be published in some commercial publication, that would be copyrightable.

You can have either the full text or a URL, but not both — at least from me.

[eureka!]

Bumping for later. Thanks for the post...

[Dog]

A CIA spy led us to Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the mastermind of the September 11th attacks.

Al Qaida's operational chief Nashiri, the man who planned and executed the bombing of the USS Cole, was located and arrested because of our human reporting.

KSM ping!

[Hunble]

Who the heck is talking about any copyright?

I simply requested the source URL so that I could rub the noses of a few Libs.

Good grief!

[Coop]

Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.

Sounds like Tenet's been FReeping. :-)

[Dog]

Here is the speech in full..

[Cap Huff]

Thanks for the ping. By the way, looks like we got another fairly big guy in Iraq (but there's some fog developing around the Sunday attacks).

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-02-05-iraq-arrests_x.htm

[Dog]

Look at this ....I missed it listening to the speech.

A senior Iraqi official has now admit that their two large unmanned vehicles, one developed in the early '90s and the other under development in late 2000, were intended for the delivery of biological weapons.

[Zack Nguyen]

This is a great speech. Tenet did a very good job of laying out the facts here. The successes are never reported.

The media, however, will poke and prod the words until they can come up with something damaging to Bush, to drive a rift between him and Tenet.

[Zack Nguyen]

In 1997, I have read that the "class" of clandestine officers graduated from the CIA school totaled seven. That's 7! Today its over 100.

[Carolinamom]

I heard the speech from beginning to end.........primary source. Therefore, anything pundits claim to the contrary of what was said is NOT TRUE. Period.