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...marked with a protest in front of Massachusetts Hall in which members of the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), joined by members of Black Mens Forum (BMF) and other undergraduates, attempted to hand deliver a letter to Interim President Derek...
Despite yesterday’s protest and fast, SLAM members vowed to continue their lobbying efforts...
...Friday, initial press reports about the book, reported that Tenet acknowledges that he made his storied remark about the prewar intelligence on Iraq being a "slam dunk," but that other U.S. officials shared his comment with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward - many months after the fact - out of context in an effort to shift the blame for the war's costs and direction from the White House to the CIA. Tenet describes watching an episode of Meet the Press in 2006 in which Vice President Cheney cited the "slam dunk" comment as a critical reason behind the U.S. invasion...
...Center of the Storm is the first book written by a member of the President's inner circle after Sept. 11, and it was written in part because Tenet believes the "slam dunk" remark has became an unfair epitaph for his CIA tenure. In its 549 pages, Tenet defends his actions and is highly critical of the decision-making process that led to the Iraq war. "There was never a serious debate that I know of within the administration about the imminence of the Iraqi threat," Tenet writes. He adds that there was also no "significant discussion" about dealing with...
Another member of SLAM, Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07, who is also a Crimson editorial editor, said that the fasts will be held in a public arena on campus, but that he is not yet sure where...