Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts said on CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer" that Tenet's statement of responsibility leaves "a host of questions" unanswered.
"Making him the fall guy does not resolve the question or make go away the questions about the overall intelligence, and why the administration clearly had this political tug of war over the kind of information they were presenting America," Kerry said "That is only going to be answered by the White House."
Another Democratic candidate, Sen. Bob Graham of Florida, who was chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee during last year's debate about Iraq, said the uranium claim was part of a "pattern of deception" by the Bush administration.
"This is not a problem of George Tenet, it's a problem of George Bush," Graham said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"Throughout his administration -- from the first weeks, when there was energy policy developed essentially excluding the American people, through economic policy, environmental policy and now the war in Iraq and the war against terrorism -- this has been a pattern of selective use of intelligence, of deception, of overstatement," Graham said.
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