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Future of George Tenet following his Resignation as CIA Director Yesterday - Transcript

Date: June 4, 2004
Location: Washington DC
Issues: Executive Branch

SHOW: Day to Day (4:00 PM ET) - NPR

June 4, 2004 Friday

HEADLINE: Future of George Tenet following his resignation as CIA director yesterday

ANCHORS: ALEX CHADWICK

REPORTERS: MADELEINE BRAND

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ALEX CHADWICK, host:
BRAND: But for Richard Durbin, Democratic senator from Illinois, who's on the Senate Intelligence Committee, the intelligence failures go further up, to the highest levels of the administration.

Senator RICHARD DURBIN (Democrat, Illinois): It has a lot more to do with people still in the administration who put pressure on George Tenet to generate intelligence data in record-breaking time to justify the invasion of Iraq. The National Intelligence Estimate, which these agencies prepare so that we know what we might face in Iraq, usually takes six months to prepare; George Tenet was told to do it in three weeks.

BRAND: And which people are you talking about?

Sen. DURBIN: People in the highest levels of this administration, the ones who have been pushing this agenda from the start. They would include he vice president, the secretary of defense, Mr. Wolfowitz, Mr. Perle, Mr. Doug Feith with his separate intelligence operation, and many others.

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