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Posted on 01/17/2005 6:56:33 AM PST by pissant
It isn't likely to be a rosy path for incoming US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, as former CIA director George Tenet is likely to trash her achievements as the country's national security adviser in his memoir.
According to the Daily Mail, Tenet is of the categorical view that Rice was responsible for the terrorist strikes on the United States in September 2001, as she did not initiate enough protective steps to prevent those episodes.
"He (Tenet) claims she (Rice) was incompetent, that she didn't do her job" when it came to protecting the country from terrorists," the paper quotes a source as saying.
Tenet's book collaborator and former spokesman, Bill Harlow, denies that Tenet is putting the blame on Rice."The book proposal is confidential," says Harlow, the author of the military thriller "Circle William."
Tenet, who spent two weeks meeting with publishing-house editors, is also said to lay odds that Al Qaeda will strike next with a radioactive "dirty bomb."
"He says they're looking for a symbolic, high-value target - presumably in Washington or New York," says our source. "He says the terrorists' only difficulty is getting it into the country."
Robert Barnett, the lawyer who's shopping the proposal, also declined to discuss the book. But 12 houses are said to be vying for it. Bidding is said to have started at around a million dollars, though the word is that Tenet is hoping to get close to five million dollars. (ANI)
Valuable lesson to the Prez. Don't let Clinton appointee's anywhere near the reins of power. Please dump Mineta now.
Ms. Rice will spank him again and Georgie will just cry.
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Tenet is of the categorical view
Maybe I am a little dense this morning, but what is a categorical view?
History will not be kind to Tenet. Try as he will to spin otherwise, he dropped the ball repeatedly. Many thousands of lives were lost as a consequence.
Helll-OOOOOO.... the Bush administration had been on the job scant months when it happened... what a jackass.
Paul o'Neill wasn't a Clinton man and he sure was no friend. And how about David Kay - wasn't he suppose to be a friend of the administration? I guess its hard to know whom to trust and who might turn on you.
This the same CIA that totally missed India and Pakistan's development of nukes? The same CIA that completely underestimated the black market nuclear trade? The same Tenet who oversaw the CIA during the 1990s, when terror attack after terror attack went unanswered?
WTF did he think was going to happen?
Worth repeating.
A Catagorical View is what you have when your editor says he wants 500 words, and you can only think of 499.
He's another blame someone else guy. They can never take any responsibility for anything! Boo Hisssssss.
He's another blame someone else guy. They can never take any responsibility for anything! Boo Hisssssss.
I see he's wasting no time putting himself thru the spin cycle.
I hope he gets dizzy and barfs all over himself.
Good one. That song will probably be in my head for the rest of the day. Do you work on Madison Ave. NYC?
FMCDH(BITS)
Paul O'Neill was goofy, worthless, and relatively harmless. David Kay, OTOH, has amazed me with his flip-floppy opinions. Don't know if he was a dem mole trying to damage Bush, or if he just figured out what to say to stay in the spotlight.
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