The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence pointed out that the DCI's comments could be misleading: "The DCI's unclassified testimony did not include source descriptions, which could have led the recipients of that testimony to interpret that the CIA believed the training had definitely occurred." (p. 330). It is now known that the main source for Tenet's claim, which was repeated by the White House in October, was the now-discredited interrogation of captured al-Qaeda leader Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi.
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence stated that the DCI's comments might be misleading: "The DCI's unclassified testimony lacked source descriptions, which could have led those who received it to think the CIA was certain about the training." (p. 330). It is now known that the primary source for Tenet's claim, repeated by the White House in October, was the discredited interrogation of captured al-Qaeda leader Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi.