George “Tenet’s CIA was 100 percent wrong in assessing Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction before the Iraq war. But [President] Bush not only didn’t fire Tenet…he never even showed any irritation with him. Instead, Bush vigorously defended Tenet and ended up giving Tenet the Presidential Medal of Freedom on December 14, 2004, the highest civil award that can be granted to an American citizen.”
– Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Page 64