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)
Words of wisdom from a clinton appointee...sarcasm off. You know he's trying to pass the buck in order to make himself look good. I blame all of this on the 8 years of clinton and their minions doing trying to do the work that should have been left for adults!
""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."
Absurd. This is Tenet, who headed the CIA - specifically created in part to prevent another Pearl Harbor-like surprise attack on the U.S. In this, both Tenet and the CIA failed miserably. This is inescapable.
His head should have rolled on 9/12, along with every division chiefs' head in the DO and the DI.
Why Bush kept him on as long as he did afterwards is beyond me. I imagine to keep his "enemies" close, so that Tenet couldn't write a Bush/Rice-bashing, tell-all book during election campaign to save his own sorry @$$ reputation.
I'm just posting the story. Heck, the India website is probably as reliable as the NY Times. So take it all with a grain of salt.
I hear all this about Zell Miller. I knew who Bill Clinton was in 1991. Bill never surpise me on a crap he pulled. Zell is smart but but it took him a long time to face reality. I'm glad he did but taking until 2002 was way too long.
The same Tenet to whom our President gave a MEDAL OF FREEDOM? Almost as disgusting as the George H.W. Bush Award to Ted Kennedy last year. What is wrong with these Bushes?
I'm going to hold my fire on Tenet (and Bush) until I see what he writes.
Main Entry: cat·e·gor·i·cal
Pronunciation: "ka-t&-'gor-i-k&l, -'gär-
Variant(s): also cat·e·gor·ic /-ik/
Function: adjective
Etymology: Late Latin categoricus, from Greek katEgorikos, from katEgoria
1 : ABSOLUTE, UNQUALIFIED <a categorical denial>
2 a : of, relating to, or constituting a category b : involving, according with, or considered with respect to specific categories
- cat·e·gor·i·cal·ly /-i-k(&-)lE/ adverb
We are all imperfect with bad habits. We are all sinners. That's why God invented forgiveness. Reconciliation is also an American characteristic. Japan knows this better than we.
Yes you are right but until the sinner is held accountable that person will not change. That is true for Bill Clinton or a certain wife of a person I know.
And when one returns to a brother he's wronged to mend broken fences BEFORE his brother turns to a judge, then that relationship is saved. Zell has more than mended a broken fence, and I hope he leads more Democrats to do the same.
Perhaps not on the surface, but in the mid 90s when Marc Rich was playing hell with aluminum prices and supplies, Clinton intervened on behalf of Alcoa (O'Neill was CEO). Alcoa suddenly was able to get product at a reasonable price, saving O'Neill's job and career. O'Neill owed Clinton big time.
Hmm
Cool Website Ping. I plan to make it a favorite!
Sy Hersh spilled the beans...
So it's from Hersh. A guy that just exudes integrity. </sarcasm>
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