WE'RE AT WAR

Created: 9/16/2001

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We must now finalize our strategy and leadership structure loorldwide war against al-Qa'ida and other terrorist organizations. Our unrelenting focus must be on bringing all of our operational, analytical, and technical capabilities to bear-not only to protect the US both here and abroad from additional terrorist acts-but also, and more importantly, lo neulralize and destroy al-Qa'ida and its partners.

This will require our absoluteotal dedicationeadership team. It will require your sustained focus and attention. It will require you to translate the urgency of the difficult tasks ahead to the men and women we lead by our behavior and actions.

There can be no bureaucratic impediments to success. All the rules have changed. There must be an absolute and full sharing of information, ideas, and capabilities. We do not have time to hold meetings to fix problems-fix them-quickly and smartly. Each person must assume an unprecedented degree of personal responsibility.

We must ensure that these same principles apply- in dealing with our law enforcement, military, other civilian agencies, and Intelligence Community colleagues. Whatever systemic problems existed in any of these relationships must be identified and solved now.

There must be an absolute seamlessness in our approach to waging this war-and we must lead.

We must all be passionate and drfven-but not breathless. We must stay cool. We must keep our heads. Never has our professionalism and discipline beenreater premium. We must maintain these core values at all costs.

I haveist of priorities that we will need to coordinate and act upon immediately.

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Together we will win this war and make our President and the American people proud. We will win this war on behalf of our fallen and injured brothers and sisters in New York and Washington and their families. We will win il for all that we valueation.

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