David Gergen's Take on Uraniumgate: Condy's Spin is Hogwash

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Former White House official David Gergen, who served under several Republican and Democratic presidents, wonders if CIA Director George Tenet will pay for the price for the mistake.

"Yes, it absolutely suggests that," Gergen said today. "It sounds to me... as if they had a negotiation between the agency and the NSC over what they were going to say, that the CIA objected strenuously to the idea of asserting it on the basis of U.S. intelligence, and when the NSC came back and said, let's blame it on them, let's attribute it to the British, the CIA, well, on that basis, on part of our negotiation, we withdraw our formal objection. And Condi Rice is saying, he didn't object, therefore, we didn't take it out."

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http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/wolf.blitzer.reports/

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1. That's excellent.

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