SRA 231 Lecture Notes - George Tenet, Defense Intelligence Agency, Confirmation Bias
Document Summary
Purpose: to identify the hindrance(s)/bias in each passage. George tenet, director of central intelligence (dci) and his deputy john mclaughlin went to the. White house on sunday, december 21, 2002 to brief the president, vice-president and the national security advisor on the intelligence regarding iraq"s nuclear, chemical, biological and missile programs. The president was not impressed with the evidence. Mclaughlin"s presentation, the president asked tenet, is this best we"ve got? tenet replied unequivocally don"t worry; it"s a slam dunk case! 1. Passage-1 analysis & supporting points: mclaughlin and tenet briefed the president with bias that they had enough evidence regarding iraq"s missile programs. Personal bias hindrance in the sense that the central intelligence agents believing they had a strong case, despite the president"s doubts about the evidence. Demonstrating their case on the basis of ignorance, proving that the president noticed a hindrance in their case that proved too weak of a claim to action against iraq"s missiles.
