It's his acceptance of the Medal of Freedom that shows he is Bush's puppet. Woodward's book came out before he received the medal. If the statement was false or misleading, he should not have accepted the medal. Tenet's acceptance of the medal indicates to me, at least, that he was sucking up to Bush, going along with the status quo.
Posted by at April 26, 2007 08:16 PMWhiney little bitch. Just like Colin Powell. "It's not my fault! It's not my fault! I tried to warn them." Mych too little, much too late. You really feel guilty, Tenet? Then help get Bush and company impeached. Otherwise, it's just excuses and rationalization for the crimes you comitted.
Posted by Brian Bell at April 26, 2007 08:35 PMYea, where were these spineless worms when they could have saved the country from going down the toilet?
Posted by TIKI AL at April 26, 2007 09:20 PMSome things are priceless. The value of a Medal of freedom? Nothing. The raping and pillaging of America came too easy for these people. We are all to blame.
Posted by phidipides at April 26, 2007 10:56 PMLooking at the history of The Washington Post,it's hard not to believe that it was rife with CIA operatives before and during the Watergate era,particularly Ben Bradley and Katherine Graham. Even a cursory look at Woodward's career will make you suspect that he has been with "the company" all along.
Posted by Kevin at April 27, 2007 02:55 AMGive him his whirlwind booktour and then hustle him off to the old spooks home.
What was Clinton thinking when he picked this boob?
Posted by Daryl at April 27, 2007 05:27 AM"What was Clinton thinking when he picked this boob?" Bush had every right to replace Tenet the second he took office, but did not. The real question, Daryl, is why did Bush keep this boob? And here's your answer: Because Bush knew he could manipulate Tenet any way he wanted, and Tenet would keep his mouth shut. Therefore when the CIA briefed Bush on Bin Laden, and Bush did nothing, Tenet kept his mouth shut....instead of blowing the whistle on him. But really, all this "slam dunk" Iraq stuff is smoke screen. It's 9/11, stupid. That's the Tenet story we are waiting on.
Posted by T2 at April 27, 2007 05:47 AMTell us, George.
Who did you tell that the Niger docs were forgeries and when did you tell them? Because whoever conspired to use those forgeries to start this war deserves to hang.
Oh please, please, please tell us you told Bushie to his face, "The Niger documents are forgeries."
Posted by John Forde at April 27, 2007 06:12 AMWell, what does Tenet's book have to say about the Niger controversy? He was personally involved with it, as I remember.
Always remember, it wasn't the CIA's concern with Iraq's WMD which dragged and forced an unwilling president into invading Iraq---it was a militarist, warmongering president who forced and cajoled an unpersuaded CIA to overstate the WMD "case" from every possible angle. Does anyone doubt this?
And Tenet didn't have the balls to stop it, or blow the whistle. We'll see if his book is viewed as stating the actual truth, but history will not be kind to Mr. Tenet, I predict.
Posted by euzoius at April 27, 2007 07:06 AM"Tenet said his (slam dunk)comment...related to what information could be used to make a public case for the war."
George,
Convincing case, my ass! You never did make a convincing case for war despite all the deceitful fabrications you facilitated. Billions recognized it as complete horseshit, while the billions more merely dubious were bludgeoned into grudging acquiesence by historic chauvanist intimidation.
Worse, you were disloyal to your patriotic subordinates by failing to support and protect them from the coercive and criminal meddling of Dick Cheney, I. Lewis Libby and Newt Gingrich striving to fix our intelligence round their policy.
Most reprehensible of all, you sat on your flaccid, measly, pampered ass doing nothing while Cheney, Libby and Rove exposed Valerie Wilson and the Brewster Jennings network to conceal administration fraud in promoting a criminal war of aggression against Iraq.
This strategic disaster of epic proportions was not possible without your craven assistance. Misleadership Accomplished, jerkoff.
And lay off the sports metaphors. It'll make that stuff you call thinking in that thing you call a mind so much more instrumental in that stuff you call public service, if anyone is so foolish as to employ you in such capacity ever again. Unless you're planning to confess to a (real) US Attorney, just shut up and go away.
Posted by Pvt. Keepout at April 27, 2007 07:49 AMSince I began reading about Tenet’s recent revelations I have found myself nearly speechless with fury. Others have given voice to much of my emotion but, I still feel it necessary to splutter and spit through my virtual clenched teeth from this virtual soap box:
“Mr. Tenet, sir: Honor?! Honor?! You SOB! You worse than SOB, you sociopath, you vile excuse for a specimen of the human species! More than 100,000 dead, a trillion dollars squandered, nearly 2,000,000 refugees, laying the foundation for violence and hatred and division and ruin that is likely to last generations, and you have the effrontery, the vacant ethics, to come before the people you betrayed –betrayed! - and to include among your accounting of these catastrophes the niggling insult of your tarnished honor! Whether from incompetence, or political expedience, or for personal gain, or out of cowardice, or personal cover for the mistakes of 9/11, or for whatever the hell reason it was, you, to whom we entrusted our resources, our lives and the lives others, to whom we entrusted our future, you betrayed us when it mattered the most. Listening to you whimper about honor, I could just vomit.”