[rdavis84]

"George Tenet told the Committee: "With respect to allegations of industrial espionage, the notion that we collect intelligence to promote American business interests is simply wrong. We do not target foreign companies to support American business interests.

"If we did this, where would we draw the line? Which companies would we help? Corporate giants? The little guy? All of them? I think we quickly would get into a mess"

Guess he straightened THAT out!! The nerve of some people, questioning the patriotism of the intelligence agencies management!

Here's the Key Qualifier ----- "the notion that we collect intelligence to promote American business interests is simply wrong." It's just a by-product. The Main Goal is to keep track of folks who want to crash planes into stuff, release nasty bugs, things like that.

[aristeides]

Thanks for the Tenet quotes. I hadn't been aware of them. Hmmm, if the CIA wasn't using those female and male prostitutes at the APEC meeting in Seattle in '93 for American business interests, I wonder just for whom it was using them.