"I've been told all this intelligence about having WMD and this is the best we've got?" From the end of one of the couches in the Oval Office, Tenet rose up, threw his arms in the air.
On page 249 of Woodward's book, the quote was portrayed thusly: "Bush turned to Tenet, "I've been told all this intelligence about having WMD and this is the best we've got?" From the end of one of the couches in the Oval Office, Tenet rose up, threw his arms in the air.
After one briefing, Mr. Bush turned to George Tenet and protested, "I've been told all this intelligence about having W.M.D., and this is the best we've got?" The same book also reports that Mr. Bush told Mr. Tenet several times, "Make sure no one stretches to make our case".
But if their entire case against Iraq War boils down to faulty intelligence, why not launch a preemptive military strike against Iran, when we supposedly do have all intelligence we need about Iran's nuclear military program.
The administration declassified all kinds of intelligence about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction program so that Secretary of State Colin L. Powell could discuss it publicly in his famous Feb. 5, 2003, presentation to the United Nations.
By now it's indisputable that the Bush administration massaged all sorts of intelligence about Iraq, mangled the law in the treatment of detainees and outright ignored the law in authorizing warrantless wiretapping.
1. Pages ("dumb" pages with no intelligence or data) 2. People (social networks producing richer data and eventually platforms for applications) 3. Power (all that data producing powerful intelligence about the things we really want to know, like 'what' or 'who' am I looking for etc).
"I had no idea about all the intelligence reports the Met had on me," Brooks said.
A top rebel commander told the Guardian over the weekend that the Donetsk authorities have "all the intelligence we need" about Mariupol's defences and would be capable of launching an assault at any minute.
