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Interesting behind the scenes diorama unfolds....plausible deniability for Tenet out the window?
Was Bush a pawn in an inside game with CIA from Clinton administration leftovers?
Was Tenet grinding his own axe for Clinton years of dwindling CIA influence and being hung out to dry over the terrorism intel failures??
Should be an interesting 60 minutes.
More than a hundred summaries of his debriefings were sent to the CIA, which then became a pillar - along with the now-disproved Iraqi quest for uranium for nuclear weapons - for the U.S. decision to bomb and then invade Iraq. The CIA-director George Tenet gave Alwan’s information to Secretary of State Colin Powell to use at the U.N. in his speech justifying military action against Iraq.
Tenet gave the information to Powell despite a letter - a copy of which 60 Minutes obtained - addressed to him by the head of German intelligence stating that Alwan appeared to be believable, but there was no evidence to verify his story.
Through a spokesman, Tenet denies ever seeing the letter. "[Tenet] needs to talk to his special assistants if he didn’t see it," says Tyler Drumheller, a former CIA senior official. "I am sure they showed it to him and I am sure ... it wasn’t what they wanted to see," he tells Simon.
Interesting behind the scenes diorama unfolds....plausible deniability for Tenet out the window?
Was Bush a pawn in an inside game with CIA from Clinton administration leftovers?
Tenet embarked on a mission to regenerate the CIA, which had fallen on hard times since the end of the Cold War. The number of agents recruited each year had fallen to an all-time low, a 25-percent decline from the Cold War peak.
On September 15, 2001, at Camp David, Tenet presented the Worldwide Attack Matrix, an outline of an anti-terrorism campaign in 80 countries. However, after the September 11 attacks, many observers criticized the Intelligence Community for numerous "intelligence failures" as one of the major reasons why the attacks were not prevented.
Was Tenet grinding his own axe for Clinton years of dwindling CIA influence and being hung out to dry over the terrorism intel failures??
Should be an interesting 60 minutes.