Tenet's Tell-All Is a Slam Dunk to Provoke Invasion's Architects

WAPO ^ | April 16, 2007 | Al Kamen

[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.

[Cicero]

His biggest collective mistake was to leave any member of the previous administration in their posts.

Yes, I've been saying that ever since the fall of 2000.

Bush got off to a very slow start because of the chad wars and clinton's refusal to allow a transition government. BUT Bush seriously screwed up not to shovel all the clintonoids out first and worry about replacing them afterward. Having nobody sitting at the desks is better than having gangs of clintonoid and carterite traitors sitting at the desks all over the bureaucracy.

[Enchante]

Can’t wait to see how the weasel Tenet explains how he and his CIA performed brilliantly wrt to both 9/11 and the Iraq WMD issues, etc. It was only eviiillll “neo-cons” who did not have the insight to understand all the “nuances” of the CIA’s ineptitude.......