Another take on Tenet's tome

From the Baltimore Sun:

Tenet's defense of the indefensible

By Melvin A. Goodman
May 7, 2007

George J. Tenet's "At the Center of the Storm" is a self-serving and misleading account of his role in helping the Bush administration make its private and public case to go to war against Iraq.

As the director of central intelligence, Mr. Tenet did not share the convictions of such hard-liners in the administration as Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, but he - along with senior CIA leaders - facilitated the path to war by providing intelligence to the White House and Congress that presented a false picture of Iraq's intentions and capabilities.

Mr. Tenet's major obligations in the run-up to war were making sure that assumptions on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and possible links to terrorism were rigorously examined and that challenges to assumptions were fully explored. By doing neither, Mr. Tenet and the agency violated the intelligence community's norms of ethical tradecraft.

(The article is here.)