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...When I believed that someone was misconstruing intelligence, I said something about it." GEORGE TENET, CIA director, when asked whether he confronted Administration officials who made misleading public statements regarding U.S. intelligence on Iraq...
...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, the memo could embarrass Bush...
...says social service is a huge tenet of Judaism and while social action at Hillel has been relatively strong in the past, she wants to develop more volunteer opportunities...
...Virginia and Utah. Senator Ted Kennedy was a key Democratic supporter of the law--but is now contemplating changes. And Bush's likely opponent in the presidential race has criticized him sharply for the funding shortfalls but has so far indicated no desire to fight him on a central tenet of the law. Says an adviser to John Kerry: "He wouldn't in any way back away from the commitment to accountability...
...awkward moment in a suddenly wobbly presidency. Obviously, Iraq was a war of choice. CIA Director George Tenet recently said he never believed there was an "imminent" threat. It is hard to find anyone outside the Vice President's circle of friends who still insists that an immediate, unilateral invasion was necessary. The real question for this election year is, Was going to war in Iraq the right choice in the larger struggle against radical Islam? Saddam Hussein is in jail. There may have been ancillary benefits from the American show of force: Libya has given up its nuclear ambitions...