Tenet falls on his sword
Bush Expresses Confidence in C.I.A. DirectorBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 10:11 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush said Saturday he had confidence in CIA Director George Tenet despite his agency's failure to warn Bush against making allegations about Iraq's nuclear weapons program later found false.
"Yes I do, absolutely,'' Bush said. "I've got confidence in George Tenet. I've got confidence in the men and women who work at the CIA and I look forward to working with them as we win this war on terror.''
This confidence was borne out by the following:
The NY Times has the text of the statement whereby George attempts to get his namesake off the hook. I find it grimly amusing the way we keep hearing about how "the 16 words eventually made it into the State of the Union speech" as though the words were stalking the landscape, peeking around corners like Impossible Mission Force agents. Those words fought like hell to get into the speech, overpowering security guards ans Secret Service agents (who have since been reassigned for their failure to protect the President from political assassination).
posted by Prometheus 6 at 7/12/2003 11:25:20 AM |
