Bush Lauds Spies--in Visit to CIA

President Bush toured the CIA and thanked its spies--some of them protecting their identities behind velvet curtains--for their “service and sacrifice” in an uncertain world.

Visiting the George Bush Center for Intelligence, named for his father, a former president and ex-director of the CIA, Bush told the Langley employees he was a prime customer for their work and found it “first rate.”

Later, Bush pronounced his top-secret, 90-minute tour “very interesting” and paid tribute to the men and women who worked at the CIA, saying they had “one thing in mind and that is how to serve America.”