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USA Today
May 7, 2007
Pg. 7
Former CIA director George Tenet said Sunday that he was responsible for part of the Iraq weapons intelligence failure he called "a dark moment." Tenet said he believed that when then-secretary of State Colin Powell told the United Nations Security Council in February 2003 that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction, the information was "good and solid." No such weapons were found.
"We let the secretary down and we undermined the credibility of the United States," Tenet said on NBC's Meet the Press. "Nobody regrets this more than I do." Tenet said it was a mistake but wasn't done knowingly. "It was a dark moment for all of us," he said. Powell has called the episode a "blot" on his record.
May 7, 2007
Pg. 7
Former CIA director George Tenet said Sunday that he was responsible for part of the Iraq weapons intelligence failure he called "a dark moment." Tenet said he believed that when then-secretary of State Colin Powell told the United Nations Security Council in February 2003 that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction, the information was "good and solid." No such weapons were found.
"We let the secretary down and we undermined the credibility of the United States," Tenet said on NBC's Meet the Press. "Nobody regrets this more than I do." Tenet said it was a mistake but wasn't done knowingly. "It was a dark moment for all of us," he said. Powell has called the episode a "blot" on his record.