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Originally posted by bilmore
I don't think anyone misled him. I think they just plain didn't know for certain.
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Tenet just testified that Feith briefed the President without the CIA's knowledge. The people who get to decide what the President hears have an awful lot of power in this Administration, and I think we all know that Dick Cheney's statements on these subjects have been at least as bellicose and uncompromising as anyone else.
eta: You had a bunch of intel professionals and a bunch of ideologues working this, and the ideologues were making sure that they controlled what the President heard and how he heard it. Tenet has made pretty clear that he tried to police the garbage that people were trying to push, and the fact that Feith briefed the President without his knowledge means that the ideologues (a) knew that the professionals were trying to give the President a more balanced view, and (b) had the clout to avoid these roadblocks. It was the National Security Advisor's job to make sure Bush got the info he needed, and she evidently did not do her job. The memoirs of all of these people are going to be very interesting reading.
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