This headline at Aljazeera.net caught my eye and I went looking for independent confirmation in western news outlets. I could find nothing confirming it at the New York Times, Washington Post, or BBC.

CIA: Pentagon lied in run-up to war
Wednesday 10 March 2004, 9:02 Makka Time, 6:02 GMT

CIA director George Tenet has revealed that a senior defence official leaked a false intelligence report before the US-led invasion of Iraq, ignoring agency advice.

Answering questions before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, Tenet confirmed that an article in November's Weekly Standard was written by Undersecretary of Defence for Policy Douglas Feith.

The magazine claimed to have obtained a leaked top-secret document, but the CIA chief admitted the third highest Pentagon official wrote it specifically for publication.

Vice President Dick Cheney then cited the leaked unapproved document as "the best source of information" on cooperation between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida.


In fact, the New York Times, Washington Post and the BBC are each headlining a story that Tenet does not believe that the Bush Administration misrepresented intelligence before the war. What is going on here? Is it just different cultural perspectives on a similar story? It seems like radically different perspectives. Both stories are based on Tenet's testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday.