Tenet: Irrelevant to Administration whether Iraq was a threat

This is from the new book by former CIA Director George Tenet, titled At the Center of the Storm:

“There was never a serious debate that I know of within theadministration about the imminence of the Iraqi threat,” Mr. Tenetwrites in a devastating judgment that is likely to be debated for manyyears. Nor, he adds, “was there ever a significant discussion” aboutthe possibility of containing Iraq without an invasion.

Tenet went on to add that his infamous "slam dunk" comment about WMD's in Iraq was taken out of context, and that it had no impact on whether the Administration went to war.  His frustration with Vice President Dick Cheney was quite evident on one passage:

Mr. Tenet described with sarcasm watching an episode of “Meet thePress” last September in which Mr. Cheney twice referred to Mr. Tenet’s“slam dunk” remark as the basis for the decision to go to war.

“I remember watching and thinking, ‘As if you needed me  to say ‘slam dunk’ to convince you to go to war with Iraq,’ ” Mr. Tenet writes.

Tenet, who is scheduled to appear this Sunday on CBS' 60 Minutes, will lash out at the Administration for throwing him overboard.