Tenet's coming memoirs

Washington Times ^ | 10-5-06 | Michael F. Scheuer

[JZelle]

With Bob Woodward's book "The Anger of the Court Historian Spurned" in hand, we now await a book by George Tenet, the former director of Central Intelligence, to be published later this fall. The book will be of great interest to Americans, not only because of the position Mr. Tenet held under Messrs. Clinton and Bush, but because the CIA apparently afforded him office space and access to documents so that he could prepare a thorough work.

[JZelle]

Any day now, the election's almost here.

[jpl]

The book will be of great interest to Americans

Speaking for myself, I have absolutely no interest whatsoever in anything this incompetent, pink-tie-wearing worthless bureacuract has to say.

the CIA apparently afforded him office space and access to documents so that he could prepare a thorough work.

He's going to repay all of the kindness and loyalty President Bush showed him by putting the knife squarely in his back.

[DBrow]

"CIA apparently afforded him office space and access to documents"

Anybody check his socks and underwear?

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

As I understand it, Tenet presided over Clinton's degradation of the CIA's covert operations assets.

[Big Digger]

Could you maybe have reworded the post? Sounds like something Rep. Mark Foley might have written in an instant message to a page.

[Wuli]

"As I understand it, Tenet presided over Clinton's degradation of the CIA's covert operations assets."

The degradation of the CIA's covert operations began in the 1970s. Clinton's era was simply the point in time when many of the senior managers at Langley had no field operations experience - desk jockeys, promoted in the absence of the old guard "operatives" who retired and were not replaced in large numbers; as the CIA "intelligence" began to rely on electronic surveilllance and humint from allied foreign intelligence agencies.

If there is an error there by Clinton, it was in not having the intelligence and vision to see the weaknesses that were then apparent due to our over-reliance on foreign sources and electronic evesdropping. Yet, Clinton and Democrats were not the only ones who failed to see the extent of that weakness; though certainly those that did were mostly conservatives.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

I agree with you that under Jimmy, Stansfield Turner nearly destroyed the CIA's covert operations. However, the Reagan Administration put back some muscle in that area, to be degraded again by Clinton and Tenet. What is it that RATs don't like about covert operations. I guess they just don't like what the CIA did in Chile or Central America.

[DBrow]

OMG I'd better go back and erase it! This will mean curtains for my candidacy if this leaks out!

I never had contact- never- with George's underwear and probably not his socks, as far as I can remember right now.

[eleni121]

What a disgraceful Greek American. Unworthy of his ethnicity.

I have one more "street" word for Tenet: malaka!