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."
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.
As a matter of fact, CIA considered original Wilson's brief / "report" about Niger trip as confirmation of Saddam's attempts in June 1999 to arrange the sale of yellowcake (from Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report), coincidentally (?) around the time of first Wilson's trip to Niger in 1999...
Re "Imperial Hubris" by Anonymous / Scheuer, check out Enchante's find about the role of then-CIA spokesman Bill Harlow, who coincidentally (?) was a confirming "source" for Novak's Plame story, and who knows how many other reporters and who is now a "consultant" for NBC News.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1782647/posts?page=67#67 Yes, unfortunately, after Carter, Church Committee, Torricelli and Clinton the CIA became CYA, and in that sense Tenet was the perfect standard bearer for it.