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CIA director fights
Cheney assertions
George Tenet said recent
claims by Vice President
Dick Cheney that Iraq had
ties with al-Qaida are false
By Jonathan S. Landay
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
WASHINGTON — CIA Director
George Tenet on Tuesday rejected re
cent assertions by Vice President
Dick Cheney that Iraq cooperated
with the al-Qaida terrorist network
and that the administration had
proof of an illicit Iraqi biological
warfare program.
Tenet's comments to the Senate
Armed Services Committee are like
ly to fuel friction between the White
House and intelligence agencies over
the failure so far to find any of the
banned weapons stockpiles that
President Bush, in justifying his case
for war, charged Saddam Hussein
with concealing.
Tenet at first appeared to defend
the administration, saying he did
n't believe the White House mis
represented intelligence provided
by the CIA.
The administration's statements,
he said, reflected a prewar intelli
gence consensus that Saddam had
stockpiled chemical and biological
weapons and was pursuing nuclear
bombs.
But under sharp questioning by
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.,
Tenet reversed himself, saying there
had been instances when he had
warned administration officials
they were misstating the threat
posed by Iraq.
"I'm not going to sit here and tell
you what my interaction was ... and
what I did and didn't do, except that
you have to have confidence to
know that when I believed that
somebody was misconstruing intel
ligence, I said something about it,"
Tenet said. "I don't stand up pub
licly and do it."
Tenet admitted to Sen. Carl Levin
of Michigan, the committee's senior
Democrat, that he had told Cheney
the vice president was wrong in say
ing two truck trailers recovered in
Iraq were "conclusive evidence"
Saddam had a biological weapons
program.
Cheney made the assertion in a
Jan. 22 interview with National
Public Radio.
Tenet said U.S. intelligence agencies
still disagree on the purpose of the
trailers. Some analysts believe they
were mobile biological-weapons fa
cilities; others think they may have
been for making hydrogen gas for
weather balloons.
Levin also questioned Tenet
about a Jan. 9 interview with the
Rocky Mountain News, in which
Cheney cited a November article in
the Weekly Standard, a conservative
magazine, as "the best source of in
formation" on cooperation between
Saddam and al-Qaida.
The article was based on a leaked
top-secret memorandum. It purport
edly set out evidence, compiled by a
special Pentagon intelligence cell, that
Saddam was in league with al-Qaida
leader Osama bin Laden. It was writ
ten by Undersecretary of Defense for
Policy Douglas Feith, the third-high
est Pentagon official and a key propo
nent of the war.
"Did the CIA agree with the con
tents of the Feith document?" asked
Levin.
"Senator, we did not clear the docu
ment," Tenet replied. "We did not
agree with the way the data was char
acterized in that document."
Tenet, who pointed out the Penta
gon, too, had disavowed the docu
ment, said he learned of the article
Monday night, and he planned to
speak with Cheney about the CIA's
view of the Feith document.
In building the case for war, Bush,
Cheney and other top officials relied
in part on assessments by the CIA
and other agencies. But they con
cealed disputes and dissents over
Iraq's weapons programs and links
to terrorists that were raging among
analysts, U.S. diplomats and mili
tary officials.
They also used exaggerated and
fabricated information from defec
tors and former Iraqi exile groups
that was fed directly into Cheney's
office and the Pentagon. Those
groups included the Iraqi National
Congress, whose leader, Ahmad
Chalabi, was close to hawks around
Secretary of Defense Donald H.
Rumsfeld and the White House, but
who was distrusted by the CIA and
the State Department.
Adm. Lowell Jacoby, director of the
Defense Intelligence Agency, the mili
tary's main intelligence arm, said
"some" information provided by de
fectors had checked out, but they also
gave material that was "fabricated or
embellished."
Bush has appointed a bipartisan
commission to investigate what the
CIA and other intelligence agencies
knew about prewar Iraq, but would
n't permit the commission to exam
ine how intelligence was used by the
White House and the Pentagon. In
formation from Iraqi defectors and
exile groups, who contended Sad
dam was a great threat, also was
ruled off-limits.
Politics pervaded Tuesday's hear
ing. Democrats sought to prove
Bush and his top aides overstated
prewar intelligence assessments of
the threat posed by Saddam. Repub
licans insisted the administration's
arguments reflected the CIA's judg
ment, the views of most lawmakers
and those of the former Clinton ad
ministration.
"Members of this committee,
members of the Senate, as well as past
and present administrations reached
the same conclusions: Saddam Hus
sein possessed weapons of mass de
struction," said Sen. John Warner, R
Va„ the panel chairman.
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., the De
mocratic presidential candidate, and
other critics are linking the issue to
Bush's credibility as the election cam
paign heats up and the toll of dead
and injured U.S. soldiers rises.
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