Still Smoke and Mirrors: "Taking his cue from Cheney, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, in testimony before Congress on Wednesday, also stressed the need for additional time. And yesterday, in an unguarded moment, Rumsfeld gave the game away, when he disparaged David Kay's judgment on the status of the search for WMD:
'Kay said we're about 85 percent complete. Tenet said what I said: there's work yet to be done.
' Indeed, Tenet says what Rumsfeld and Cheney say. Tenet is the quintessential team player, an attribute antithetical to his statutory duty to tell the emperor when he had no clothes on. Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, like Cheney a frequent visitor to CIA Headquarters, recently told the press "George Tenet is so grateful to the president [presumably for not firing him on Sept. 12, 2001] that he will do anything for him."
Are you surprised that intelligence has been politicized? "
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