Tenet Battled With the Office of Special Plans

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Tenet Battled With the Office of Special Plans
By Matt Renner
t r u t h o u t | Report

Wednesday 02 May 2007

In his book, "At the Center of the Storm," former Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet describes efforts by Pentagon and White House officials to subvert pre-Iraq war intelligence assessment by the CIA.

Tenet focuses on the actions of a group inside the Pentagon that sent the Bush administration bogus intelligence on Iraq's weapons program and ties to terrorist organizations that supported the administration's policy.

This group was recently criticized by a Department of Defense inspector general report from February 9, 2007, which found that a policy-shop known as "the Office of Special Plans," headed by the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, acted "inappropriately" by cooking intelligence to reflect a "mature and symbiotic" relationship between Iraq and al-Qa'ida. This characterization was never supported by the CIA, but was presented as fact by Feith's office to White House policy makers in the run up to the Iraq war.

Former CIA intelligence officer Larry C. Johnson called the Office of Special Plans (OSP) "a hodgepodge put together by folks with an agenda." According to Johnson, "The administration started with a presumption of guilt, and the OSP was to hang the ornaments on the tree."

According to Tenet, White House officials tried to prevent the CIA from publishing their own analysis on the relationship between Iraq and al-Qa'ida. A draft report of the CIA analysis of the relationship was sent to the White House in December, 2002, resulting in "a series of calls from the White House," that asked CIA to “revise or withdraw the paper." Tenet names Libby and Hadley as two of the White House officials who made these calls. Tenet claims that a previous draft of this report was given to the DOD for their feedback. Tenet says that Feith's office responded saying that they did have objections “but would make their views known through other channels."

Tenet claims that he did not know the briefings continued despite his direction to Jacoby. As head of the DIA, Jacoby had two bosses: Tenet and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Tenet points out this fact but does not explicitly say that Rumsfeld overruled his direction to Jacoby. The inspector general report concluded that the "inappropriate" activities of Feith's office were authorized by Rumsfeld or his former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz.

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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/printer_050207A.shtml

[Me.]

1. Glad To See The OSP Being Outed to the General Public

It's the least Tenet could do.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. So? What? Does he want a medal?

Oh...wait...

[laststeamtrain]

3. Yeah I know. He wants to eat the cake & vomit it back up on the host too.

He's a cheese-eating weasel alright but at least his book is generating some stories about Little Dougie's OSP.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. You know...

There really isn't a fate too gory or horrible or unthinkable for Little Dougie. In fact, I feel that too little time has been spent on creative thinking in this regard. ;-)