Ex-C.I.A. Chief, in Book, Assails Cheney on Iraq

By SCOTT SHANE and MARK MAZZETTI
Published: April 27, 2007
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON, April 26 — George J. Tenet, the former director of central intelligence, has lashed out against Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials in a new book, saying they pushed the country to war in Iraq without ever conducting a “serious debate” about whether Saddam Hussein posed an imminent threat to the United States.