[kabar]

GWB did not appoint Tenet, and maybe Tenet did buy time by using 41, but so what? It still does not make him our responsibility and frankly with all the walls and misinformation and lack of decision making authority, I really can't get to mad at Tenet. He's a bureaucrat after all. LE is always reactive rather then proactive. It's the nature of the beast. Normal people have a hard time thinking like criminals and sociopaths.

Tenet was incompetent. He was placed in charge of a major government organization [first as deputy] with little executive experience ecxcept for running a small senate staff. He was a partisan bureaucrat who knew how to game the system. He was not a leader. Amazingly, he is second longest serving CIA Director in history, i.e., 7 years. Dulles was the longest. Bush should have fired him shortly after 9/11. Instead, he hung on until July 11, 2004.

I also blame Tenet for his role in the Wilson/Plame affair and sending out a press release saying that the 16 words in the SOTU address were a mistake and should never have been included.

[defconw]

I think it's to easy to make Tenet the scapegoat, there is more then enough blame to go around.

[rwilson99]

They cut out 20 minutes... now what 20 minutes of disclaimers.