Original sentence: )  Elsewhere, Tenet claims the intelligence unit Feith headed set about discrediting the conclusions of every other intelligence operation, while cherry-picking evidence to support the invasion of Iraq as a logical response to 9/11.According to George Tenet's memoir, a neocon cabal in the Pentagon, dubbed "Team Feith" for Douglas Feith, created and maintained the fiction of a connection between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden when, Tenet says, no solid evidence supported that assertion.This assertion by Tenet is contrary to his October 2002 letter to Senator Bob Graham that stated, among other things "We have solid reporting of senior level contacts between Iraq and al-Qa’ida going back a decade
Edited sentence: According to George Tenet's memoir, he observed an intelligence coup d'état up close in the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.Tenet claims a neocon cabal in the Pentagon, dubbed "Team Feith" for Douglas Feith, created and maintained the fiction of a connection between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden when no solid evidence supported that assertion.Tenet claims the intelligence unit Feith headed set about discrediting the conclusions of every other intelligence operation, while cherry-picking evidence to support the invasion of Iraq as a logical response to 9/11