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George Tenet and the Last Great Days of the CIA
Author(s) -
White Richard D.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
public administration review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.721
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1540-6210
pISSN - 0033-3352
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2008.00879.x
Subject(s) - george (robot) , agency (philosophy) , terrorism , conscience , public servant , political science , management , white (mutation) , servant , law , public administration , sociology , history , engineering , social science , art history , economics , biochemistry , chemistry , software engineering , gene
George Tenet served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1997 to 2004, an intense period spanning the administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and covering the terrorist attacks of September 11 and the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Few other central intelligence directors have served for so long, so energetically, or amid so much controversy. This profile examines the steep trajectory of Tenet’s career, his response to the al‐Qaeda threat, the role he played during the invasion of Iraq, and the eventual reorganization of the nation’s intelligence community. It describes a public servant caught between the warring factions of the White House decision‐making process, his own agency’s intelligence priorities, and, ultimately, his own conscience.