Press Conference of President Bush
“And of course, that concerns me. All those reports concern me. As a matter of fact, I was dealing with terrorism a lot as the President when George Tenet came in to brief me. I mean, that’s where I got my information. I changed the way that — the relationship between the President and the CIA Director. And I wanted Tenet in the Oval Office all the time. And we had briefings about terrorist threats. This was a summary.”
C.I.A. Chief Defends Agency but Allows `We Made Mistakes’
Mr. Tenet also conceded in an answer to a panel member, Timothy J. Roemer, a Democrat, that while other C.I.A. personnel had briefed President Bush during the summer of 2001, he himself did not talk to the president during August 2001. That was the same month that Mr. Bush received a controversial briefing prepared by the C.I.A. on domestic threats posed by Al Qaeda to the United States.
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