March 09, 2004

One more time for the hell of it...
Posted by Jon Henke

George Tenet is doing yeomans work again, for all the good it does....

CIA director George Tenet said today that he did not believe the administration had "misrepresented" intelligence about Iraq leading up to the war and that he privately corrected officials when he disagreed with what they were saying.

In a sometimes contentious hearing before the Senate Armed Service Committee, Tenet defended the administration's description of Iraqi threats against charges that President Bush and Vice President Cheney, in particular, exaggerated the threat and did not tell the American people that some of intelligence assessments included significant caveats or were disputed by some intelligence agencies.

Asked by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) whether he believed the administration had misrepresented the intelligence on Iraq, Tenet answered: "No sir, I don't."
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Tenet added that sometimes language used by policymakers in public "doesn't uniquely comport" word for word, with the complex, more nuanced intelligence community language. ". . . I lived up to my responsibility," he said.

Let me translate that for you: "Senator Kennedy, let it go. Drop it. It's over. Move on."

Or, to put it in language Senator Kennedy might understand: forget about it....it's water under the bridge.

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Well actually the translation would be closer to -- Sen. Kennedy, F U!, with the correct amount of politness of course.

BTW I have Blogrolled you, thanks for all the fine reading.

Posted by: Cranial at March 10, 2004 12:22 AM

Hey great blog. I've seen it a few times through other's links. I've added it to my blogroll so I can keep up on a regular basis.

I want to think that the senate would have more to do than revisit old issues over and over...but then again there is the old saying "congress therefore is the opposite of progress"

Posted by: Rick at March 10, 2004 02:49 AM

Ouch.

Posted by: Mike at March 10, 2004 10:40 AM

Something Teddy would understand quite easily, "Mary Jo Koepchne invaded Iraq, it wasn't us."

Posted by: mz at March 10, 2004 12:55 PM

The quality of the intelligence matters, and the way the intelligence is used matters. I supported the war, but even I admit that the WMD were the main selling point with me. I don't mourn Saddam's regime, and I have no use for the turtledoves out there who want peace at any number of innocent Western dead. But I do want good intelligence. Lord knows we pay enough money for it...

Posted by: The Sanity Inspector at March 11, 2004 12:43 AM