United Press International: CIA never called Iraq immediate threat: "CIA Director George Tenet -- in a quickly scheduled speech at Georgetown University -- said that there was never consensus among CIA analysts that Iraq posed a short-term threat to the security of the United States and never faced political pressure to imply it was.

'They never said there was an 'imminent' threat,' he told the audience. 'Rather, they painted an objective assessment for our policymakers of a brutal dictator who was continuing his efforts to deceive and build programs that might constantly surprise us and threaten our interests.'

'No one told us what to say or how to say it,' he added."