"Mr. Boren said that in the weeks before the Iraq war, he warned Mr. Tenet that since he was not a member of Mr. Bush’s closest circle of advisers, the White House would make him the scapegoat if things went badly in Iraq."
It is well established that the actual problem with intelligence is much more basic and general than this. The problem is a dysfunctional CIA infrastructure (not Tenet's fault) that resulted from the demolition of the agency in the 1970's by the Church Committee, followed by further weakening during the Carter and Clinton administrations. Leave it NYT to spin what resulted from a serious absence of human intelligence as Cheney and Rice "making (Tenet) a scapegoat".