Byron Dorgan: “George Tenet gave a speech today at Georgetown that was profoundly disturbing to me and I want to visit about it for a…”

“George Tenet gave a speech today at Georgetown that was profoundly disturbing to me and I want to visit about it for a moment. I am not on the Senate Intelligence Committee. I am not someone who claims to have substantial knowledge or detailed knowledge about all of these issues. I spend a great deal of time concerned about economic issues and think I know something about some of those, but I do not pretend to be an expert in foreign policy or intelligence issues. I, as have all of my colleagues, have sat in rooms with a label called ``top secret'' and listened to briefings, top-secret, classified briefings from Mr. Tenet, from the Vice President, from National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, from Secretary Powell, and others. I, like others, have watched what has happened in recent weeks with the testimony from David Kay in which he came to the Senate as a witness and said, look, we got it all wrong. We were all wrong about the intelligence with respect to Iraq.”