“I don’t know where he’s coming from, except he’s the director and he’s in denial. It was absurd. Nobody in the building believed it, not even the people who were cleaning up the room.” — Sen. Richard Shelby (R.-Ala.)

Wolf Blitzer: CIA Intelligence Failures? ‘When Central Intelligence Agency Director George Tenet appeared this week before the Senate Intelligence Committee — his only public question-and-answer session since September 11– he firmly denied that there was any U.S. intelligence failure leading up to the terrorist attacks. “Where did the secret for the planning reside?” he asked the senators. “Probably in the head of three or four people, and at the end of the day, all you can do is continue to make the effort to steal that secret and break into this leadership structure. And we have to keep working at it. There will be nothing you do that will guarantee 100 percent certainty here. It will never happen.” ‘ CNN