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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (7116)	7/20/2003 12:32:28 AM
From: calgal	Read Replies (2) of 8683

So, can you believe it? DEM SENATOR: TENET BLAMED WHITE HOUSE By DEBORAH ORIN July 18, 2003 -- WASHINGTON — An anti-war Democratic senator yesterday claimed CIA Director George Tenet told Congress behind closed doors that the White House insisted on putting a disputed charge about Iraq's nuclear program into President Bush's speech — but Bush aides called that "nonsense." An intelligence official familiar with Tenet's behind-closed-doors testimony disputed Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin's characterization, saying the spymaster never singled out a particular individual or blamed the White House. For more than a week, Bush has been under fire for his State of the Union speech's claim that Saddam Hussein was trying to buy enriched "yellowcake" uranium in Africa — a flap that even Republicans say Bush has badly mishandled. "[Tenet] certainly told us who the person was who was insistent on putting this language in which the CIA knew to be incredible, this language about the uranium shipment from Africa," Durbin claimed on ABC's "Good Morning America." "And there was this negotiation between the White House and the CIA about just how far you could go and be close to the truth," Durbin contended in his description of Tenet's testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee. White House press secretary Scott McClellan quickly shot back: "That characterization is nonsense. It's not surprising coming from someone who is in a rather small minority in Congress that did not support the action that we took." Durbin didn't name the official who supposedly insisted on the claim. Some people have said it was the National Security Council's weapons expert, Robert Joseph, and Democratic presidential contender Howard Dean instantly called for his resignation.

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