Now this is what I call “taking one for the team”:
WASHINGTON (AP) – CIA Director George Tenet acknowledged Friday his agency wrongly allowed President Bush to tell the American people that Iraq was seeking nuclear material from Africa when analysts had doubts about the quality of the intelligence.
“These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president,” Tenet said in a statement released after Bush and his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, blamed the miscue on the CIA and members of Congress called for someone to be held accountable.
“This was a mistake,” the director’s statement said.
My blog notes that Tenet was a CLINTON appointee.
Can you say “payback”?
My blog also quotes Victor Davis Hanson on the way to concluding that the CIA and State Department are obsolete relics of a diplomacy-minded insanity (not like advanced syphilis) that brought us WWI and WWII.
Follow the money. The diplomatic corps has zero victories in the last century. Better to fold State and plunge the funds into the military who correctly sees its mission to PROTECT THE UNITED STATES.