April 29, 2007

Merlin and his Apprentices: The Real "Slam Dunk"

By Clarice Feldman
It's a familiar scene: A Clinton holdover writes a book attacking the Bush administration and is paraded around through the network newsrooms for partisan fun and his own profit. I'm talking about George Tenet's soon-to-be released book attacking Cheney and Rice, absolving himself of all error and making a puzzling claim about what he meant when he said the Iraqi WMD program was a "slam dunk" basis for justifying war on Saddam Hussein's Iraq.The details of some of his claims have been attacked by those who know better.From Victor Davis Hanson  to Ed Morrissey and Michael Scheuer. Investors Business Daily has gone right to the heart of Tenet's "slam dunk" claim:While conceding the CIA believed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction before the 2003 U.S. invasion, Tenet says that wasn't what he was referring to by "slam dunk." No, he was talking about putting "a better case together for a public case," he writes.Despite the media...(Read Full Article)