Post by Moses on May 24, 2004 16:32:20 GMT -5
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Closing in on Tenet
The Senate may deliver a harsh assesment of the CIA director
By TIMOTHY J. BURGER AND DOUGLAS WALLER
Saturday, May. 22, 2004
The senate intelligence Committee is getting closer to delivering a scathing report on the CIA's prewar intelligence on Iraq. Sources tell Time that the assessment, which is nearing completion, is so tough that it is sowing doubt even among longtime fans of CIA Director George Tenet. One panel member dodged a question from Time about whether the member still had full confidence in the director, saying Tenet "has done incredible things" for the CIA but adding, "This is not going to be a happy report." Sources tell Time the committee's two ranking 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.
It is important for American Citizens to understand that the Intelligence Committees in both the House and the Senate are stacked, and not in the interest of the USA. Senator Levin is the only decent member on the Senate side, but he isn't ranking-- Jay Rockefeller was given that slot. His interests in the middle east are reknowned. He got to the Senate by way of West Virginia. West Virginia was used.
Closing in on Tenet
The Senate may deliver a harsh assesment of the CIA director
By TIMOTHY J. BURGER AND DOUGLAS WALLER
Saturday, May. 22, 2004
The senate intelligence Committee is getting closer to delivering a scathing report on the CIA's prewar intelligence on Iraq. Sources tell Time that the assessment, which is nearing completion, is so tough that it is sowing doubt even among longtime fans of CIA Director George Tenet. One panel member dodged a question from Time about whether the member still had full confidence in the director, saying Tenet "has done incredible things" for the CIA but adding, "This is not going to be a happy report." Sources tell Time the committee's two ranking 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.
It is important for American Citizens to understand that the Intelligence Committees in both the House and the Senate are stacked, and not in the interest of the USA. Senator Levin is the only decent member on the Senate side, but he isn't ranking-- Jay Rockefeller was given that slot. His interests in the middle east are reknowned. He got to the Senate by way of West Virginia. West Virginia was used.