Clarice Feldman at American Thinker has an interesting quote from Richard Perle having to do with a claim of George Tenet’s:

In a review of George Tenet’s book “At the Center of the Storm”, Michiko Kakutani reveals Tenet’s claim that the Administration –or at least the neocons in it–were determined to get Saddam even before the facts were in. In support of this he recounts Tenet’s tale:

On the day after 9/11, he adds, he ran into Richard Perle, a leading neoconservative and the head of the Defense Policy Board, coming out of the White House. He says Mr. Perle turned to him and said: “Iraq has to pay a price for what happened yesterday. They bear responsibility.” This, despite the fact, Mr. Tenet writes, that “the intelligence then and now” showed “no evidence of Iraqi complicity” in the 9/11 attacks.

Unfortunately for Tenet and whoever( if anyone) was fact checking this whine-arama Perle was out of the country on 9/11 and confirmed to me today that he was unable to return home until 9/15/2003.

Some head of intelligence.

Here’s another story that confirms what Clarice wrote although she made a mistake by putting the year at 2003 instead of 2001.