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February 06, 2004
Tenet, Kay, Commission
BBC NEWS | Kay queries White House war talk
George Tenet defends the CIA in a speech:
In a hastily arranged speech at Georgetown University on Thursday, [CIA Director George] Tenet defended his agency's intelligence gathering practices and independence, saying it had not been coerced into being alarmist.
No-one told security officials what to say or how to say it, he said, adding: "We always call it as we see it."
Tenet said he was satisfied with the intelligence assessment
Mr Tenet denied his agency had ever said there was an "imminent threat".
And David Kay raises the possibility of manipulation of intelligence by the White House:
Speaking in Washington on Thursday, [former chief US weapons inspector David] Kay said the apparent contradiction "raised the possibility that the intelligence community had been telling the White House one thing and the White House had been hearing something else."
He said the issue of whether politicians manipulated data to make the case for war "is an important question that needs to be understood".
Daily Kos posts the executive order creating the Commission on the intelligence capabilities of the United States regarding weapons of mass destruction and notes that "As you read through the order, note that it doesn't allow the commission to look at how the intelligence was used by the admininstration. Oh, and also no subpoena power. ... This commission is useless."
Is anyone surprised? Time to write letters to the editor.
Posted by glyphic at February 6, 2004 07:13 PM