Reply #29: It sounded like he was saying that HE was the source [View All]

[salin]

of ALL intel the president saw (and thus used). His case was defending the types of intel (eg setting up that it was from the CIA - not pitting CIA as more careful and the WH as more loosey goosey)... strengthens that argument by suggesting that he didn't know of OSP (eg it doesn't exist). If he had been more cagey about defending the intelligence rather than rationalizing that the intel used was based on reasonable items... then I would agree that he might be setting up some wiggle room. But it sounds like he was taking ownership of the intel - USED BY THE PRESIDENT (he rationalized the "mobile labs", the "reconstitution of bio weapons", the "aluminum tubes for nukes" etc.) I do not read this as a set up by Tenet, but as a samarai move.