[Enchante]

Tenet could have done a lot more to smack down the inanities and misdirection introduced by Joe Wilson and the DBM, but even in what he released it should have been clear to any non-deranged readers (are there any in the DBM?) that the "Niger uranium" issue was quite secondary to pre-war intel assessments, and that Joe Wilson was leading the press and the entire country/world on a ludicrous diversion from the real issues.

"In October, the Intelligence Community (IC) produced a classified, 90 page National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq’s WMD programs. There is a lengthy section in which most agencies of the Intelligence Community judged that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear weapons program. Let me emphasize, the NIE’s Key Judgments cited six reasons for this assessment; the African uranium issue was not one of them.

[kabar]

Moreover, the Brits still stand by their information on Saddam's contacts with Niger to this very day. I also question Tenet's allowing "Imperial Hubris," to be released in 2004 during the war and the runup to the election. I have always felt that Tenet was playing both sides of the street on the Iraq War and was attempting to disavow CIA support for the war, even if it was a "slam dunk."

[originalbuckeye]

I can't quite figure out why anyone here thinks Tenet will support the President. He was first appointed by Clinton and GWB kept him around in the spirit of bi-partisanship. Look where bi-partisanship has gotten Bush. All the holdovers from Clinton have gone on to try to destroy GWB. I wish he'd wise up.

[originalbuckeye]

I can't quite figure out why anyone here thinks Tenet will support the President. He was first appointed by Clinton and GWB kept him around in the spirit of bi-partisanship. Look where bi-partisanship has gotten Bush. All the holdovers from Clinton have gone on to try to destroy GWB. I wish he'd wise up.