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---------- April 17, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - CIA director George Tenet confidently assured a skeptical President Bush before the Iraq war that it was a "slam-dunk case" that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, according to a bombshell new book by Bob Woodward. Tenet provided his ironclad guarantee to the president after an aide led a Dec. 21, 2002, intelligence presentation at the White House featuring communication intercepts, satellite photos and diagrams.

The president then turned to Tenet and said, "I've been told all this intelligence about having WMD and this is the best we've got?"

"It's a slam-dunk case," Tenet replied, prompting Bush to press him again, "George, how confident are you?"

"Don't worry, it's a slam-dunk case," the nation's top spymaster repeated.

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The president didn't want Tenet to know what Rumsfeld was working on, and White House National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice knew only vaguely that Rumsfeld was doing some work on Iraq.

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So on one hand Tenet was giving Bush rock solid can't miss info that Saddam had weapons of mass destructions to go to war. But on the other he didn't want Tenet to know Rumsfeld was working on plans for the war. Yeah that sounds likely. And who did Woodward get this info from? Long Rod or Fat Frank?

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And who did Woodward get this info from?

Nixon.

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Everyone is forgetting that up until now, we have been told that Cheney strong-armed the CIA to manufacture intel to back the war in Iraq.

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Now Woodward tells us Tenet assured Bush that it was a "slam dunk?"

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Any chance that Woodward is trying to draw out Tenet? Or is this Woodward's way of supporting Bush, while making $ at the time.