Will, Tenet, the "slam dunk" man, said he believed the CIA's assessment. I don't believe everything but there's a ring of truth in what he wrote. Colin Powell, with what many considered very circumstantial evidence presented to the UN, apparently believed the intelligence assessment, too. I thought it flimsy. Sometimes people believe what they want to believe, and this applies equally to institutions and countries under strain. (I don't know if I'd use unscrupulous for the White House; certainly proven incompetent. More than the towers have fallen.)

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