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...source says Bush told the commission he had not been warned of the CIA'S and the FBI's concerns about would-be 747 pilot Zacarias Moussaoui, who was arrested in August 2001. Yet Bush went out of his way to express confidence in CIA director George Tenet. Bush described his activities on Sept. 11 and explained how he communicated from the road with Cheney, in a secure bunker back at the White House. A top Administration aide explained this was one reason Cheney accompanied Bush at the session--"because they were both a part of that...
...face of the commission's preliminary findings, the CIA seemed unable to decide whether to apologize or come out swinging. Tenet acknowledged that the CIA "made mistakes" and warned that it would take an additional five years to rebuild the clandestine service. In what is perhaps the closest anyone in the Bush Administration has come to a formal acknowledgment of responsibility, Tenet said, "We all understood bin Laden's attempt to strike the homeland, but we never translated this knowledge into an effective defense of the country." But Cofer Black, head of the CIA's clandestine service who holds...
...After the FBI contacts the CIA about the case, CIA chief George Tenet gets a briefing titled "Islamic Extremist Learns...
...Nice try ... I've been told all this intelligence about having WMD, and this is the best we've got?" PRESIDENT BUSH, in a meeting with CIA Director George Tenet and other intelligence officials in December 2002, before the invasion of Iraq, as quoted in Bob Woodward's new book, Plan of Attack, which dissects the Administration's preparations...
...slam-dunk case." GEORGE TENET, replying to the President's concerns, as quoted in Plan of Attack...