| Look at the long pause from the questioner (1min18sec). The reason for the incredulous pause is because Tenet just told him he never briefed the President during the month of August-never even saw him. When it was already public knowledge that he had flown down to Texas to personally meet the president in late August. It was on the white house's own web site......... For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary August 25, 2001 Q When you have those business meetings, like the Joint Chiefs briefing, do you like to keep it separate from the living quarters on the ranch? THE PRESIDENT: Actually, you know, what we call the governor's house, the place where you all came out during the -- that's where we went. Condi and Karen Hughes stayed there. And right across the street from that is a -- it's a nice looking government doublewide. (Laughter.) And that's where the mil aide, the nurse, the WHCA head, the doc, they stay. The CIA briefings, I have on our porch, the end of our porch looking out over the lake. When Tenet came up, that's where we visited, out there. You know, everybody wants to see the ranch, which I'm proud to show it off. So George Tenet and I -- yesterday, we piled in the new nominees for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Vice Chairman and their wives and went right up the canyon. web.archive.org CIA spokesman Bill Harlow: "He momentarily forgot," Harlow said of Tenet. www.washingtonpost.com |
