CIA`s Tenet Defends Agency, Warns of Fresh Plots
CIA Director George Tenet on Wednesday defended the intelligence agency against congressional criticism that it failed to prevent the Sept. 11 attacks and said further plots were being hatched by al Qaeda. Intelligence will never give you 100 percent predictive capability on terrorist events,” Tenet said in his first public testimony to Congress since the attacks. Sen. Richard Shelby, the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee and one of Tenet`s harshest critics, said Americans deserved an explanation about why the intelligence agencies failed to provide adequate warning. Full Story