By Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 9, 2004; 4:03 PM
CIA director George Tenet said today that he did not believe the administration had "misrepresented" intelligence about Iraq leading up to the war and that he privately corrected officials when he disagreed with what they were saying.
In a sometimes contentious hearing before the Senate Armed Service Committee, Tenet defended the administration's description of Iraqi threats against charges that President Bush and Vice President Cheney, in particular, exaggerated the threat and did not tell the American people that some of intelligence assessments included significant caveats or were disputed by some intelligence agencies.