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C.I.A. Chief Defends Agency but Allows 'We Made Mistakes'
By TERENCE NEILAN and DAVID STOUT

Published: April 14, 2004


...Mr. Tenet's testimony before the panel was followed a few hours later by an abrupt reversal in which he corrected himself. The director had told one panel member, Timothy J. Roemer, a Democratic former congressman from Indiana, that while other C.I.A. personnel had briefed President Bush during the summer of 2001, he himself did not talk to the president that month.

But this afternoon, a C.I.A. spokesman, Bill Harlowe, said the director may have misunderstood the question. Mr. Harlowe said Mr. Tenet had indeed briefed Mr. Bush that month — at his ranch in Texas on Aug. 17 and on Aug. 31 in Washington. Nothing out of the ordinary was talked about, said the C.I.A. official who corrected Mr. Tenet....


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/14/politics/14CND-PANE.html?hp