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CNN BREAKING NEWS

CIA Director Resigns

June 3, 2004 Thursday

GUESTS: Stansfield Turner, Peter Earnest, Ken Robinson

BYLINE: Daryn Kagan, Suzanne Malveaux, David Ensor, Richard Roth, Barbara Starr

HIGHLIGHT:
The head of the CIA, George Tenet, resigns for personal reasons.

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REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA), MINORITY LEADER: ... I just know that, at that time, as a senior Democrat, the intelligence did not support the threat.

I think there are many questions that are-that have arisen here. One is, as you know, the CIA never placed much confidence in Chalabi. The White House did; the administration did.

And it was on the-it appears that it was on the basis of much of the information that Chalabi gave the administration that a decision was made to go to war.

All of the-the dream team that the president supposedly put together-and you know who they are-turned out to be a nightmare for the American people. One of the reasons is the confidence that they placed in Chalabi.

And this was right up to the top, as you well know. In January, Chalabi sat in the president's box at the State of the Union address. As you know, until about two weeks ago, he was alleged to be on the payroll of the Department of Defense. And only a few days after that, his offices were raided, with allegations of very, very serious, serious charges.

I'll say more on that if you-depending on which direction...

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PELOSI: Well, you know that I have said for weeks that it is important that the secretary of defense resign. He has played a very important role in...

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