Tenet to Testify before CongressHenry Waxman (D-CA), chairman of the House oversight committee, announced today that former CIA Director George Tenet has agreed to testify before his committee. The topic: the White House’s hyping of false intelligence in the run-up to the war, specifically Iraq’s alleged efforts to procure uranium from Niger.
June 19th’s the date. And to make things even more interesting, Waxman has also scheduled Condoleezza Rice to appear at the same hearing. Waxman’s committee has already issued a subpoena for Rice’s testimony, a subpoena that Rice has signalled she will ignore. Waxman “continues to expect that she will comply with the congressional subpoena,” notes the committee’s press release. Rice had been scheduled to testify tomorrow.