Posted on 04/16/2007 8:53:28 AM PDT by woofie
The drums have begun sounding for the long-awaited book by former CIA director George Tenet, in which he gives his take on pre-9/11 days and on Saddam's huge cache of weapons of mass destruction.
And the drums are saying that Tenet is not going to get too many Christmas cards from Vice President Cheney's office after they read "At the Center of the Storm." Folks from down the river at the Pentagon, including former deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz-- a guy who's already going through a rough patch -- and former defense undersecretary Douglas Feith, might also get some heartburn.
Former secretary of state Colin Powell comes out fine. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who was President Bush's key adviser in engineering the Iraq invasion, doesn't come out so fine. Not fine at all.
The White House definitely won't be overjoyed, we're hearing. Tenet even takes some shots at himself and for the first time explains his astute assurance that "it's a slam-dunk case" when Bush asked him how solid the WMD evidence was.
Tenet has never really explained his views on that comment. The 500-page book -- or more likely his "60 Minutes" interview on April 29, the day before the book goes on sale -- will be the first time he goes over that.
Tenet, who ran the CIA from July 1997 to July 2004, did the first of two days of taping last week at Georgetown University, where he's teaching.
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Im so sick of this crap
"Former secretary of state Colin Powell comes out fine"
Yeah. That's obvious.
The CIA and State Department are cement on Americas feet.
Tenet has a lot of ‘esplain’ to do.
“But above all things, truth beareth away the victory.”
Actually this will be quite interesting. Is the left now going to rally around Tenet because he says PC things about Bush and Cheney? You bet they will.
I seem to remember that George Tenet was bill clinton’s pet weasel. Clinton installed him as head of the CIA, and clinton had a record of never appointing anyone but loyal stooges to important posts like that. Maybe clinton’s one mistake was Louis Freeh, and most likely he only screwed up with that one because he was in a big hurry to dump the sitting director and didn’t have much time to look around.
George Bush’s mistake—and it was a whopper!—was to leave Tenet in office. Maybe it was the single biggest mistake he made.
I'd say having Powell as SecState was at least as bad.
A book on 9/11 from the guy that shoulda seen it coming but didn’t. What’s the book’s title again—”Hindsight”?
Tenet should have been in jail on September 12, 2001 for criminal negligence.
He has ZERO standing to criticize anyone.
His biggest collective mistake was to leave any member of the previous administration in their posts.
absolutely no confidence in the gubmint. And the democraps would even be much worse!
Let’s have a count of all the terrorist attacks the CIA prevented:
Amen to that!
Powell might have been the difference in the 2000 election, because he gave Bush foreign policy cred. He was a necessary evil.
Actually, Bush’s worst mistake was in not replacing the CIA with an authentic espionage agency, similar to the original O.S.S., that could deal effectively with terrorists. The CIA has become the intelligence bureaucracy.
Expect Congressional hearings in 10 - 9 - 8 - 7 ...
What slime. It was HIS job to tell Bush what the intel was, and obviously he originally told him correctly, that there WERE WMDs there. Now he wants to look good. Pathetic.
The CIA can’t figure out whether Valerie Plame was a covert agent, even after reading the statute.
What do you mean, he has no standing? Was he not awarded the Medal of Freedom by the President of the United States for doing, you’ll excuse the expression, such a bang up job running the CIA?
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