"And the Vice President [Cheney] would not substitute his own judgment for the professional judgment of the CIA."
Not so fast. Rewind to 2002:
In the initial stages of the war on terror, Tenet’s CIA was rising to prominence as the lead agency in the Afghanistan war. But when Tenet insisted in his personal meetings with the president that there was no connection between Al Qaeda and Iraq, Cheney and Rumsfeld initiated a secret program to re-examine the evidence and marginalize the agency and Tenet.
Fascinating, too, how Cheney used CIA torture to undermine the CIA's own initial findings.