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...weaned on politics. His father was a Prime Minister in the late 1940s, well before Saddam Hussein came to power. And Pachachi married the daughter of another former Iraqi Premier, Ali Jawdat. The couple met when he was 14 and married before he began studying for his doctorate at Georgetown University. Pachachi became a diplomat, serving as Iraq's ambassador to the U.N. in the 1960s and then as Foreign Minister. Forced into exile when he refused to join the Baath Party, he became an adviser to the United Arab Emirates, where he slowly developed his relatively liberal ideology...
...school—their interest cultivated by one of the industry godfathers, who had a son enrolled—have filed, in groups of two and three, into the bowels of New York’s ritziest urban dwellings. Student doormen like me—hailing from Harvard, Yale, Georgetown, Amherst—are paraded through the upper halls to be half-heartedly celebrated by residents, shown off as symbols of the security and assistance that are a phone call to the basement away...
...suspected WMD. Analysts with Air Force intelligence, for instance, took issue with the assertion--hinted at by President Bush in a speech in October 2002--that Iraq was building a fleet of unmanned aircraft with which to deploy its chemical and biological arsenal. During a Feb. 5 speech at Georgetown University, CIA Director George Tenet cited the NIE, insisting, "Analysts differed on several important aspects of these programs, and those debates were spelled out in the estimate." The panel wants to see whether the caveats were included in the summary the White House got. If they were specified but ignored...
...weeks, but Bush made this triumphal assertion in his State of the Union address a month ago. Five days after the speech, David Kay concluded that the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) Bush appointed him to find apparently did not exist. Twelve days after that, in a speech at Georgetown, CIA chief George Tenet averred that his agency had never told the president that Hussein posed an “imminent threat” to the world. The president’s approval rating plunged in the week after Kay’s “we were almost...
...Rumsfeld concluded in his testimony before the Senate, "we'll learn more about those various theories in the weeks and months ahead," sounding calm and reasoned as he tiptoed backward out of the saloon before he really got beat up. CIA chief Tenet, in a rare public speech at Georgetown University, made the more cogent--and contrite--argument, admitting that spying is a game of percentages. "In the intelligence business, you are almost never completely wrong or completely right...like many of the toughest intelligence challenges, when the facts of Iraq are all in, we will neither be completely right...