CIA's Tenet Questioned on U.S. Rhetoric

[Khephra]

WASHINGTON -- CIA chief George Tenet said Tuesday he doesn't believe the Bush administration manipulated intelligence to justify war in Iraq but declined to say whether he tried to cool U.S. officials' rhetoric about the now-disputed claim Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.

"I'm not going to sit here today and tell you what my interaction was ... and what I did and didn't do, except that you have to have confidence to know that when I believed that somebody was misconstruing intelligence, I said something about it," Tenet told a congressional hearing. "I don't stand up publicly and do it."

The CIA director's comments came at the end of an exchange in which Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., asked whether Tenet privately challenged President Bush and others -- and why he didn't speak up publicly -- when officials portrayed the threat from Saddam Hussein as more urgent than CIA reports suggested.

"I do the intelligence ... they take the intelligence and assess the risk and make a policy judgment," Tenet said.

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http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-iraq-intelligence,0,6323046.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[leftchick]

1. He also denied knowing what Doug Feith, of OSP was up to...

until Sen. Levin informed him last week. Good lord he thinks we are all morans... :eyes:

[Malva Zebrina]

2. Tenet looked blubbering and mealy mouthed to me

he is covering up for Bush

[Disturbed]

3. CIA Head

Tenet is a political hack. I bet the rank and file of the CIA are seething.