NYT: Critical Report May Have Sped Departure of Tenet

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/04/politics/04REPO.html?hp

By DOUGLAS JEHL
Published: June 4, 2004

WASHINGTON, June 3 - George J. Tenet's resignation may have been hastened by a critical, 400-page report from the Senate Intelligence Committee that was presented to the Central Intelligence Agency for comment last month.

Government officials and people close to Mr. Tenet said the classified report was a detailed account of mistakes and miscalculations by American intelligence agencies on whether Iraq possessed illicit weapons before the United States invaded last year. An unclassified version of the report is to be made public this month. Some close to Mr. Tenet said the report was among the factors that led him to resign from a post he had considered leaving for several years.

A senior intelligence official said that Mr. Tenet had neither read nor been briefed on the Senate report. The official described as "bunk" the idea that his departure had been related to the Senate findings.

Officials who have read the report described it as presenting a broad indictment of the C.I.A.'s performance on Iraq. They said its criticisms ranged from inadequate prewar collection of intelligence by spies and satellites to a sloppy analysis, often based on uncorroborated sources, that produced the conclusion that Iraq possessed biological and chemical weapons.

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Personal reasons, I tell you!

How diligent are the faultless presstitutes going to be in finding out the real story, and following up?

Try again Ass-wh@$#$!!!

That was specifically ABOUT the CIA?!?

COME ON!

DTH

thing!

just wait

Isikoff and Pincus were on CNN/Brown tonight, and they're playing that line all the way down the road.

NOT ONE mention of how the intel was CONSUMED

not ONE WORD about Feith/OSP, etc.

NOT ONE FRICKING WORD!!!

then, after they were off, Brown took less than thirty seconds to mention that CHENEY has retained an attorney, and that, oh BTW, the monkeyboy has one, too.....something about that little Plame girl, doncha know

the media is doing their very very best to shovel that story down where the sun don't shine

how they going to ignore the grand jury, though

HUH?