IS THIS TRUE?

Nicolle Belle at Crooks & Liars excerpts an article from the British Daily Telegraph that has this bit:

On finding Mr Rumsfeld absent from a second meeting, CIA director George Tenet was so angry that he defied a direct order from Miss Rice to sit down and marched out of the meeting, declaring: "This is bullshit."

At the time, Rice was the national security advisor and I didn't think she could give orders the CIA director unless she were relaying them directly from the President.