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Not I, Said the CIA
George Tenet said today: "They [his intelligence analysts] never said there was an imminent threat."
Well if the CIA didn't tell Bush Iraq was an imminent threat, then he must have made it up all by himself. Its hard to tell if Tenet was supposed to help or hurt Bush today. Whatever the intention, the usual effect of anything resembling truthtelling seems to be damaging to Bush. Its clear that Tenet wants to dispel the Bush line that it was all the CIA's fault, and I'm happy to see someone bringing this up. He also rejected the idea that the CIA was told to lie about their information to justify the war. Frankly, I'd tend to believe this. I think it was all the White House that created the 'imminent threat' language and tried to convince the world that war was the only answer...not the CIA.
Of course, Tenet also echoed Rumsfeld's statement from yesterday that they may still find some of those WMD's. Uh huh. Sounds like some more good CIA intel.
Posted on February 5, 2004 07:31 PM
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