Tenet: Didn't Know Uranium Claim Was in Speech

[ze_dscherman]

Washington - CIA Director George Tenet told the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday that his staff did not bring to his attention a questionable statement about Iraq seeking uranium in Africa before President George W. Bush delivered his State of the Union address.

But Tenet told the senators during a nearly five-hour session behind closed doors that he took responsibility for the now famous 16-word sentence because an agency official had approved it after negotiations with the White House, according to congressional and administration sources present at the session.

"Members were stunned," according to one Democratic senator in the meeting, "because he said he basically wasn't aware of the sentence until recently."


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1. Locking - Dupe

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[Noordam]

2. This is BullSHIT

Now he is trying to pass the error OFF on somebody else. BUT he will be the BIG MAN and accept responibility for it BULLSHIT.