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 9/11 deserve better.

still dedicated to striking the U.S. homeland.

[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.

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...

Let me say this. I’m the Director of — I’m the Director of Central Intelligence. The President of the United States sees me six days a week, every day. I tell him what the American...

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.

There was no lack of care or focus in the face of one of the greatest dangers our country has ever faced,

There is a presence in Baghdad,

Admiral Jeremiah is the perfect person to lead such a review, … His credentials are impeccable and his credibility is unquestioned.

Iraq… has also had contacts with al-Qaida. Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides’ mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between...

lawless zones, veritable no man’s lands … where extremist movements find shelter and can win the breathing space to grow.

If one side does something, and the other side does something within the span of a security meeting, we can say we are into Tenet.

We didn’t steal the secret that told us what the plot was, we didn’t recruit the right people or technically collect the data, notwithstanding enormous effort to do so,

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...

rendered 70 terrorists to justice.