NBC Evening News for Thursday, Feb 05, 2004
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(Studio: Brian Williams)
(State Department: Andrea Mitchell) CIA director George Tenet’s defense of his agency’s role in gathering intelligence on Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, used by the administration as the basis for going to war, featured. [TENET – states no one told us what to say; comments on reports from unreliable sources.] [Former weapons inspector David KAY†- criticizes the CIA.] [Secretary of Defense Donald RUMSFELD – says there are a lot of things being said about what the administration said that the administration didn’t say.] [May, 2003, former White House press secretary Ari FLEISCHER†- says the threat was imminent.] [October, 2002, President BUSH – stresses the urgency of the threat.]
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