Reply #7: McLaughlin doesn't have same "rapport" w/ Bush as "gregarious" Tenet... [View All]

[DeepModem Mom]

From the article:

"But it also appears that the professorial McLaughlin, who came up through the analytical side of the CIA, doesn't have the sort of rapport with Bush that the backslapping, gregarious Tenet did.

An anecdote in a recent book by Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward describes McLaughlin giving a key briefing to Bush and other senior White House officials on the evidence against Iraq before the war. Bush was unimpressed by the presentation and complained that the evidence was weak, prompting Tenet to call the case against Iraq a 'slam dunk.'"

I wouldn't look for McLaughlin to be named permanent CIA head.