9/15/2002

“At a [mid-September 2002] meeting with [President] Bush, [Vice President Dick] Cheney, and [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice, CIA director [George] Tenet says that a member of Saddam Hussein’s inner circle, his foreign minister Naji Sabri, had made a deal to reveal Iraq’s military secrets to the CIA and reported that there was ‘no active weapons of mass destruction program.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]

 – Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Pages 246-247