Posted on 09/02/2005 8:47:53 AM PDT by wagglebee
>>close to affirming the account of Richard Clarke<<
Then its BS.
I will never understand why Clarke hasn't been charged with perjury for his testimony before the 9/11 Commission.
You mean the strategy that The Most Ethical Administration In History could have adopted after the first WTC incident (in Feb 1993)?
He wanted to "...set a new tone in Washington." His words, not mine!
Of course the Democratic obstructionism in the setting up of a transition office also played a part.
A logical conclusion to draw is that he knew things that would embarrass the administration and they were encouraging him to keep quiet. Why else would you give a medal to someone who presided over these monumental intelligence failures?
"........with Able Danger surfacing...."
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Surfacing my foot! It's sunk!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475454/posts
So that's why Bush gave this treacherous POS the Presidential Medal of Freedom not long after Tenet left the CIA in June of last year. Bush should have fired Tenet within a month of taking office back in 2001.
Tenet should be in jail. He was the one who did not substantiate the false information collected and given to him on WMD.
"If he does talk, even if it is all lies, and it connects to what Clarke said, it would be a political disaster and could be the end of the Bush presidency."
Oh sheesh, there were all these tell-alls before the election and they didn't do a thing to Bush. I think most people are smart enough to process this stuff for themselves. I think the amount of these books before the election if anything served to point out in peoples' minds the lengths Bush's enemies will go to in order to discredit him. Tenent will just look like another petulant child trying to take the blame off his shoulders.
I wondered what THIS means???
Why wasn't Clarke charged with perjury?? Do you think the same panel that allowed Jamie Goerlick's incompetence as Deputy Attorney General to go unnoticed would have the gumption to accuse Clarke of perjury?? Surely we couldn't lay a hand on the media's darling Dickie Clarke who touched us so with how he hugged the 9-11 victims' families after his testimony!! He's a dear, sweet man above all raproach! I mean he HUGGED PEOPLE! He can't be a perjurer!! Just like Clinton can't be because he was a hugger too! Aren't Democrats just so cuddly and cute????
Bush won't blame Tenet. It's just not his way.
Buy that man a canoe. I'll bet he'd want to use it so much he would leave a half-eaten meal on the table to dash out for a quick paddle.
When I was debriefed after years in the intel business I was told that if I ever disclosed anything that revealed how I did what I did I would go to jail.
Maybe it's time to measure Mr. Tenet for a set of leg irons and belly chains.
Having the CIA director allege the stuff is MUCH, MUCH bigger than anything that has come out so far. Look how big Clarke turned out to be when he was just a little pissant.
You are seriously underestimating how serious a problem it would be if the CIA director at the time came out to attack Bush on 911.
It would be huge.
But you're just a "little people", not an "important people". We never throw "important people" in jail.
BS, he was the boob who said "its a slam dunk", when pressed for whether Iraq had WMD..
The idiot should have been escorted from the building by armed guards at about 9:15 on 9/11/01. Had he held this position in the Soviet Union under somebody like Stalin, he would have executed within an hour.
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