you mean, CNN? they have Wolf Blitzer's Situation Room show. today hosted by fill in red head named Collins. Here's her interview with David Ensor, CNN Reporter.
"""COLLINS: And for more now, we want to go ahead and bring in CNN National Security Correspondent David Ensor.
David, I think people might not have a really clear understanding of how long it takes for information like this to actually reach the highest rank of the president. Can you explain it a little bit for us?
DAVID ENSOR, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT: Well, something like this is a field report, Heidi, done by a group of people, they were actually not government employees, but they had been asked by CIA and others to -- in the Pentagon -- to go look at these labs. So, this kind of a report is a raw field report.
It would not have gone to the president's desk. He's not an intelligence officer. He's a consumer of intelligence. It would go to the CIA, or to the appropriate place in the government, where they would analyze it, compare it with other intelligence they had, and only when they were satisfied that they could draw some kind of meaningful conclusion, they would then pass that on to policymakers, possibly including the president.
So, it's really not fair in a way to accuse him of saying the wrong thing in this particular case. I mean, after all, in October of that year, many months later, David Kay, who was assigned by the CIA to look into these weapons, was still saying they could be bio weapons labs. February, the following year, George Tenet, the then still director of Central Intelligence, was saying in a speech that he wasn't sure. So to blame the president for saying it back in May, may not be fair.
COLLINS: But the fact that you said, you know, they take all the information and, of course, analyze it, and if it's deemed necessary, it then gets to the president, because it did not get to the president, does that say anything conclusive?
ENSOR: Not really. And, in fact, there was another report that came the day before -- the day after this one did that was from Pentagon and Central Intelligence people, and, in fact, I was briefed on it. This was May 28th, I believe, 2003, which said that they believed these probably were biological weapons labs. So, there was a lot of disagreement and ferment within the government over this.
The predominant view at the time, and the president correctly stated it, was that they probably were labs. That view was overcome, eventually.
So, all you have here is a story where, well, the first word that some people thought it wasn't, that they weren't labs, did come earlier. But it didn't come to the White House. So, you know...
COLLINS: Understood.
ENSOR: ... it's a murky story.
COLLINS: It is a murky story at this point. All right. Thank you so much, National Security Correspondent David Ensor.""""
My # 23 CNN transcript is great fun when you realize it's CNN reporter/analyst David Ensor refuting ABC and The Washington Post for falsely accusing the President of intentionally misleading statemenet about those mobile labs being used for WMD.