From what we know now, agency officials in the end concurred that the text in the speech was factually correct that the British government report said that Iraq sought uranium from Africa." Did the text of the SOTU say that the British government report said that Iraq sought Uranium...?
If the text did not say that, then Tenet is making a misstatement.
What are the "16 words" in the SOTU text that Tenet mentions?
The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
Paragraph 67, sentence two, State of the Union Address, January 28, 2003.