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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (135705)	6/5/2004 1:22:55 AM
From: h0db	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Tenet is anything but an idiot. Friends at CIA tell me he was the best DCI since Richard Helms, and he genuinely loved the job. His two predecessors, Deutch and Woolsey, were misearable fools who destroyed the clandestine service. Under their tenure, competent people left in droves. The problem with the Iraq WMD case is that the "logical" conclusion was that, of course Saddam had WMD. He's lied about it in the past, used it, and would no doubt do it again. Calls like this tend to be made by technology analysts--experts in WMD--not country analysts. They begin from the presumption that WMD programs are covert and the job of the analyst is to take fragments of evidence and identify the outlines of the programs they "know" must exist. This is the opposite of the scientific method. Sad to see Tenet go out on this note. Be very grateful CIA had him for 7 years of service to the country as DCI and DDCI. How would you like to see Steve Cambone as DCI?