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...White House] sends to see the [Saudi] Crown Prince anytime there's a problem. And now what you've done is, you know, it's all going to shit. It's not particularly good, so now we're going to justify this by saying - I have to tell you, it's just enormously, you know, you live with it for the rest of your life, and you think it's wrong, and it's not honorable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Tenet | 4/29/2007 | See Source »

...take responsibility when we're wrong. They need to take responsibility for the way they, for how they integrate their thinking with us and don't simply say, "Well, they told us," when it's convenient. "They told us, and we don't ask any questions when they tell us because that's not the way this works." When you're telling them things that they don't like, there are 100 questions. When you're telling them things that essentially comport with what I want to do, well, maybe there aren't very many. Well, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Tenet | 4/29/2007 | See Source »

...describe these meetings. I mean, one of them says in the book something like, you know, "It's not a question of if we're going to do it, but how we're going to do it." And that's the feeling they are getting but I can't tell you that I go to a meeting when I can say, well, boom, here's the moment that this is going to happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Tenet | 4/29/2007 | See Source »

...TIME: What does your gut tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Tenet | 4/29/2007 | See Source »

...only perpetrated by evil people—Saddam Hussein, death row murderers, and George W. Bush, to name a few common targets. Pointing fingers seems like the easiest course of action whenever a problem arises. “I could never do what they do,” we tell ourselves. But as famed psychologist Philip Zimbardo reminds us, we are all capable of distasteful, even evil, actions, given the right situation.As anyone who has taken an introductory psychology course knows, Zimbardo was the creator and lead experimenter in the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) of 1971, which resulted...

Author: By Eric W. Lin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Evil Is Just a Change of Scenery | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

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