CrooksandLiars.com has the video. Click the photo for the 60 Minutes transcript.
Curt adds:
Very interesting part of the interview:
Conservative estimate of 100 to 500 tons [of chemical weapons agent]? I mean, how can you be so wrong?" Pelley asks.
"Scott, we’ve gone through this. It’s what we believed, it’s what we wrote," Tenet says.
"Where did these numbers come from?" Pelley asks.
"From our national intelligence estimate," Tenet says. "You don’t make this kind of stuff up."
"Wait a minute, you did make this kind of stuff up," Pelley remarks.
"No, we didn’t make it up, Scott, we just…," Tenet says.
"It’s not true," Pelley remarks.
"Scott, you’re doing it again, you’re impugning the integrity of people who make analytical judgments and make their best judgments about what they believe of the Iraqis possessed. Intelligence, you know, my business is not always about the truth. It’s about people’s best judgments about what the truth may be. We believed it. We wrote it. We let the secretary down," Tenet says.
Christopher Hitchens slams Tenet a new one.
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