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Article: Texas A&M president defends U.S. intelligence agencies
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- March 7, 2005
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Ji Ma
University Wire
03-07-2005
(The Battalion) (U-WIRE) COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Texas A&M President Robert M. Gates said Sept. 11 was far from the first terrorist attack on America, and despite wide sharing of information among major intelligence agencies around the world, no one anticipated Sept. 11.
"My remarks will be as subtle and ambivalent as you would expect," said Gates, as he introduced his speech at the Counterintelligence Conference at the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center Friday night.
The comment was met by hearty laughter from the crowd, but Gates' defense of U.S. intelligence agencies was far from subtle or ambivalent.
Gates addressed a series of difficulties ...