George Tenet Quotes
I still lie awake at night thinking about everything that could have been, that wasn't done to stop 9/11. To the 9/11 families, I said, you deserve better from your entire government. All of us.
Tenet, George, and Bill Harlow. At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA. HarperCollins, 2007.
Traditionally, countries did not allow their citizens to sue foreign sovereign governments in U. S. Courts. The main reason was one of retaliation problems ensuing. Citizens in foreign countries might then sue the United States for the damage cause by our soldiers actions such as Iraq or Afghanistan. Traditionally governments do not sue each other in civil courts. In this case, the President, Secretary of State and Defense Secretary pleaded with Congress not to pass this bill. But they passed it anyway, and President Obama veto’d it. Then the House and Senate overrode the Presidents veto on September 28, 2015 causing Schemer who led the effort for the bill in the Senate which voted almost unanimously (only 1 Senator Against)) for the override. The Democrats went against their own President on this bill.
George John Tenet is a former Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) for the United States Central Intelligence Agency as well as a Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University.
