Former CIA Director John Deutch found to have classified documents on home computer; Tenet says he should have reported lapse to Congress.
1998
U.S. embassies in Kenya, Tanzania car-bombed; to retaliate, U.S. bombs Sudanese weapons factory, later found to be pharmaceutical factory.
Nuclear tests by India, Pakistan take CIA by surprise.
1999
May 7: U.S. warplanes bomb Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia during Kosovo war; blamed on shoddy CIA targeting.
2000
Two Sept. 11 hijackers attend al-Qaida meeting in Malaysia; they are not put on CIA watch list for 20 months.
2001
Sept. 11: Hijacked planes crash and kill nearly 3,000; attacks blamed on Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida; Tenet later says more could have been done prevent attacks.
2002
Tenet issues a national intelligence estimate magnifying information about Iraq's weapons programs, generating pro-war sentiment in Congress.
2003
Tenet accepts responsibility for false uranium claim in Bush's State of the Union address; criticized for intelligence lapses concerning weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
2004
Secretary of State Colin Powell says Iraqi defectors fed him and CIA misleading information about WMD facilities before war