Vanderbilt Television News Archive

(Studio: Peter Jennings) The great debate over the quality of US intelligence in Iraq re-introduced.

(White House: Terry Moran) CIA director George Tenet's methodical case in defense of the agency's handling of intelligence presented. [TENET - talks about the intelligence business; states no one told us what to say; defends the conclusions about Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's weapons.] [Senator Carl LEVIN - says the administration made it {the danger from Iraq} sound "imminent."] [Former Iraqi WMD search adviser David KAY†- says we suffered a generation loss of faith in our intelligence.] President Bush's declaration that he did the right thing in invading Iraq noted.

(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.

(Pentagon: Martha Raddatz) Last year's case for war with Iraq presented at the U.N. by Secretary of State Colin Powell with Tenet's support re-examined; satellite images shown at the U.N. of trucks re-shown. [February 5, 2003, POWELL - says we are giving facts based on solid intelligence; states "we know..."; says a human source has corroborated the movement of chemical weapons.] [Today, TENET - comments on sources on Iraqi experiments with weapons.]