Synopsis

On December 14, 2004, George Tenet, the former director of the CIA, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom directly from President Bush. The gesture drew surprised reactions from many within the agency; only recently, Tenet had been expected to resign following the revelation that his intelligence regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq had been flawed. It was this inaccurate information that had enabled Colin Powell to address the United Nations and pave the way for the invasion of Ir