Tenet Coverage Begins As often happens, a NYT reporter walks into a store, and comes out with the embargoed George Tenet book (bought without a discount, “at retail price”). Calling it “by turns accusatory, defensive, and modestly self-critical,” the Times quotes Tenet as writing: “There was never a serious debate that I know of within the administration about the imminence of the Iraqi threat.” Though there was that 2002 National Intelligence Estimate about Iraq’s weapons programs, which Tenet calls “one of the lowest moments of my seven-year tenure,” explaining that “in retrospect, we got it wrong partly because the truth […]
