Let the games begin.
Posted on 07/31/2006 4:34:49 PM PDT by STARWISE
You can imagine why George Tenet is mad at the 9/11 book The One Percent Doctrine and reviewers who finger the ex-CIA director as the key leaker in the tale of how the administration flopped into war.
"It's not true that he was a cooperating source for [author Ron] Suskind," says an ally. Suskind agrees, E-mailing us: "Reviewers who've suggested that Tenet was the primary source [of over 100] are simply incorrect."
But now stirred, the former top spy's team is taking aim at the larger book, which they say includes errors and exaggerations. Like where Suskind says Vice President Dick Cheney's nickname in the CIA was "Edgar," as in ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. Or where he wrote that the emir of Qatar passed notes from an al Jazeera reporter to the CIA that led to terrorist arrests.
"Tenet's especially frosted about that one," says the pal. Tenet is writing his own book and has access to secret papers he says will back up his claims. Ha, sneers Suskind. "It's just patently wrong," he says of the criticism. "These are good guys, but they're doing a self-defense strategy here, no doubt because of Tenet's book."
Let the games begin.
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Oh boy...here we go.
Thanks for the ping.
Tenet trying CYA is going to be fun to watch.
I just love it when our intelligence agents are leaking and writing books and we don't hang them.
oh... /sarc
And if anyone in the CIA thought/still thinks that Cheney is "the poppet master", then their bias makes them unfit to be there! No wonder we got hit on 9/11, with bunglers such as Plame and that whole cabal, there.
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