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To: Sam who wrote (236448)	7/15/2007 1:40:02 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

No--if it is unsubstantiated rumor, it is raw intelligence, if it comes from sources who are considered unreliable--then it is questionable. It is not "fact." an interesting description of George Tenet, the source of those two pieces of information.

To: Sam who wrote (236448)	7/17/2007 10:09:34 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Tenet is an extremely ironic citation on this topic, and particularly his recent book. This particular review is not at all kind to old "Slam dunk" George, but it seems to indicate that the Weekly Standard types had to be pretty selective in what they took out of his book: But as with Rice and the warnings in the summer of 2001: Now he tells us. At this late date, the Bush-bashing that Tenet's book will inevitably stir up seems designed to rehabilitate Tenet in his first home, the Democratic Party. He seems to blame the war on everyone but Bush (who gave Tenet the Medal of Freedom) and former secretary of state Colin L. Powell (who remains the Democrats' ideal Republican). Tenet's attacks focus instead on the walking dead, politically speaking: the glowering and unpopular Cheney; the hapless Rice; the band of irretrievably discredited bumblers who used to run the Pentagon, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Paul D. Wolfowitz and Douglas J. Feith; their neoconservative acolytes such as Richard Perle; and the die-hard geopolitical fantasists at the Weekly Standard and National Review. washingtonpost.com There is a long, inglorious tale hinted at in the carefully chosen words from Tenet, on the CIA and its failure to provide the intelligence Cheney really wanted, e.g. a Saddam-9/11 link, but that will have to wait for another time.