George Tenet CIA
NAME: Petra R. Wright DATE: October 31, 2010
Title of Article: George Tenet and the Last great days of the CIA
Author of Article: Richard D. White, Jr. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an independent United States Government agency who are responsible for providing national security intelligence to senior United States policymakers (CIA,2007). Since the 1960 's and World War II, foreign intelligence has been important to the United States since the days of President George Washington, that such efforts have been coordinated on a government-wide level. The Central Intelligence Agency Act was passed in 1949, which supplemented the 1947 Act, granting the Agency more powers. The agency was permitted to use confidential fiscal and administrative procedures and was exempted from many of the usual limitations on expenditures. Thus, allowing funds to now be accounted in budgets of other departments and then transferred to the Agency without restrictions, while ensuring the secrecy of the CIA’s budget, which is an important consideration in covert operations. The Act created a Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) as head of the Intelligence Community, head of the CIA, and principal …show more content…
Tenet was first appointed as a cabinet member for President Bill Clinton Administration, and was confirmed by the Senate as the Director of Central Intelligence, sworn in as the eighteenth DCI, then continued as DCI for George W. Bush administration, which he served from 1997 until 2004. The requirements for fulling the duties of DCI appllied at all times, it did not matter if the President you were serving was Democratic or Republican, you were still expected to uphold the same integrity, and do an honest job accurately, effectively and
Title of Article: George Tenet and the Last great days of the CIA
Author of Article: Richard D. White, Jr. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an independent United States Government agency who are responsible for providing national security intelligence to senior United States policymakers (CIA,2007). Since the 1960 's and World War II, foreign intelligence has been important to the United States since the days of President George Washington, that such efforts have been coordinated on a government-wide level. The Central Intelligence Agency Act was passed in 1949, which supplemented the 1947 Act, granting the Agency more powers. The agency was permitted to use confidential fiscal and administrative procedures and was exempted from many of the usual limitations on expenditures. Thus, allowing funds to now be accounted in budgets of other departments and then transferred to the Agency without restrictions, while ensuring the secrecy of the CIA’s budget, which is an important consideration in covert operations. The Act created a Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) as head of the Intelligence Community, head of the CIA, and principal …show more content…
Tenet was first appointed as a cabinet member for President Bill Clinton Administration, and was confirmed by the Senate as the Director of Central Intelligence, sworn in as the eighteenth DCI, then continued as DCI for George W. Bush administration, which he served from 1997 until 2004. The requirements for fulling the duties of DCI appllied at all times, it did not matter if the President you were serving was Democratic or Republican, you were still expected to uphold the same integrity, and do an honest job accurately, effectively and