With respect to Mr. Tenet's staement that Mr. Atta "would have been unlikely to undertake the substantial risk of contacting any Iraqi official" at such a date, when the Sept. 11 plot was well under way, Mr. Valentine says:
"Although we cannot rule it out, we are increasingly skeptical that George Tenet has a freaking clue.''
He didn't have a problem going to cropduster firms and asking how much "poisons" the planes could hold. Among many other things that even amazed the 9/11 commission.
The statement is an absurdity gussied up to sound true. This is the best Tenet can do to counter his prior statements? What, the "CIA" just thought this up in the past few months?
Galling.