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Moderate Ann Althouse waited for the transcript and called it a win for Bill Richardson.Read more about last night's debate.Read John Dickerson's take in Slate, or listen to his thoughts.Un-Tenet-able: Among the juicy disclosures in former CIA Director George Tenet's new memoir At the Center of the Storm are the following: "There was never a serious debate that I know of within the administration about the imminence of the Iraqi threat," and the notorious "slam dunk" remark, spoken by Tenet about Saddam's WMD arsenal, was "taken out of context." Conservative Tom Roeser at On the Other Hand hasn't yet read Tenet's book but argues that, judging by its media hype and synopsis, "it is clear that it is a volume of self-justification.
The fact remains that the CIA may not have misled a great number of policy-makers on the possession of weapons of mass destruction; the weapons may well have, as author and Jihad specialist Robert Spencer told me last night at dinner, that the arms were transferred quickly to Syria.
Tenet feels keenly the lash of criticism but I think history will judge that given what he had to work with, George W.
Bush did the right thing in invading Iraq."#pagination a:hover {background-color:#FF0;}PAGE: 12NEXT »back to topVIEW AS SINGLE PAGEPRINT DISCUSS E-MAIL RECOMMENDDiggRedditdel.icio.usFurlMa.gnolia.comSphereCLOSEMichael Weiss, a writer in New York, is co-founder and managing editor of Snarksmi...
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