February 05, 2004

CNN.com - Tenet to defend CIA on Iraq intelligence


"[Tenet] will convey the picture that those who say the work is 85 percent done are 100 percent wrong," the senior official said. Kay has said the Iraq Survey Group has completed about 85 percent of its mission.
CIA officials have said the group under its new director, Charles Duelfer, has millions of pages of documents to translate and thousands of Iraqi scientists, former officials and others to interview.
Tenet also will respond to Kay's statements that the CIA was apparently wrong about how advanced Libya and Iran's nuclear programs were, officials said.
They said the agency had detailed knowledge about those nations' programs.
The officials said Libya decided to give up its program, in part, after hearing what the CIA knew about it.