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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (373)2/5/2004 7:04:21 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
none of the countries and allied services that we were
working with in the time saw this any differently

- Transcript of Tenet address on WMD intelligence

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QUESTION: Given the kind of vigorous defense you've just made of the American intelligence community, how can you argue that if the American intelligence community was so -- had to make such a judgment call that other allies of the United States were not able to reflect the same judgment call and make similar decisions?

TENET: Well, actually, I would say you're incorrect about that, because none of the countries and allied services that we were working with in the time saw this any differently.

We were all working together. We all believed he had chemical and biological weapons, so the notion that we -- you know, what people don't understand is, just as we build military coalitions and diplomatic coalitions, there is a coalition of intelligence services with like-minded interest around the world who are trying to get to the truth.

And I would say that, if I went to my principal foreign partners -- and not just the British; Middle Eastern services, other European services -- none of us called us any differently.

I would also say the front part is, what I was trying to do today is defend our community to the American people, but be absolutely honest in telling you what we said and didn't say in this estimate.

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