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...April with the publication of Bob Woodward's book Plan of Attack, which includes a scene in which Tenet lays out for the President the evidence that Saddam possessed chemical and biological weapons. "George, how confident are you?" Bush asked Tenet. "Don't worry," he answered. "It's a slam dunk...
...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...
...members 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...
...Still, it's far from certain that China has the policy tools needed to avoid a crash. Premier Wen Jiabao recently likened his country to a speeding car trying to slow down without skidding. "We cannot slam on the brakes," he said. "We have to press the brakes gently." But the country's rickety financial system may not allow gentle pressure, because it has yet to undergo a full capitalist transformation-for example, some bank loans are issued because the government orders them, not because careful analysis indicates that the borrower is a good risk. So Beijing resorts to administrative...
...third inning of Game 1, a grand slam dramatically launched Farkes into the record books and past the single-season home run tally originally set by Pete Varney...