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Edward M. Kennedy: You can't have it both ways, can you, Mr. Tenet? You can't on the one hand just say, look, we never said that war was…

On the recordMarch 8, 2004
You can't have it both ways, can you, Mr. Tenet? You can't on the one hand just say, look, we never said that war was imminent, and then have these super-heated dialogue and rhetoric, which are semantically the same as imminent, and tell us here before the committee that you have no obligation to correct it? Or didn't even try?
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Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts

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Ted Kennedy questions CIA Director George Tenet about the discrepancies in the administration's statements regarding the Iraq war.

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