Word: dunks
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...According to Bob Woodward's insider account of the decision to go to war, when President Bush had questioned the paucity of hard intelligence on Iraq's unconventional weapons capability, Tenet had told his boss that the WMD case against Iraq was "a slam dunk." But failure to find any such weapons in Iraq after the war led David Kay, the CIA official who led the Iraq Survey Group assigned to find Saddam's banned weapons, to tell Congress that "We were almost all wrong." A bipartisan commission appointed by President Bush into WMD intelligence is due to report early...
...interviewed Tenet secretly earlier this month at CIA headquarters. He submitted to the three-hour session willingly and was cooperative, sources said. But Tenet wouldn't confirm whether he told President Bush before the war that evidence of Saddam Hussein's weapons-of-mass-destruction arsenal was a "slam dunk," as reported in Bob Woodward's book Plan of Attack. The panel last week sent Tenet the several-hundred-page report--minus its conclusions--for a declassification review...
...slam-dunk case." GEORGE TENET, replying to the President's concerns, as quoted in Plan of Attack...
...slam-dunk case." GEORGE TENET, replying to President Bush's concerns, as quoted in Plan of Attack...
...elect its first female president, but it did reach an important feminist milestone last week when CANDACE PARKER, who at 17 is not yet eligible to vote, beat out five young men in the slam-dunk portion of a national high school basketball competition. The 6-ft. 3-in. Parker, only the second woman to qualify for the event, plans to attend the University of Tennessee in the fall...