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CIA TENET: BUSH ADMIN USE OF HIS 'SLAM DUNK' COMMENT TO PUSH WAR WAS DISINGENUOUS, DISHONORABLE...
Drudge ^ | Apr 26 2007 | Drudge

Posted on 04/26/2007 4:44:48 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182

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If the war was going better OR WMDs were found we would not be hearing Tenet Covering his ass. Bush should have replaced him on taking office.
1 posted on 04/26/2007 4:44:53 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Anti-Bubba182

I said Bush giving this piece of trash a presidental Metal of Freedom along with Bremer was a mistake.


2 posted on 04/26/2007 4:45:35 PM PDT by noname247
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Most of the Intelligence was correct. I don’t understand why the Bush admin chose to throw Tenet overboard. It was a mistake and now it comes home to roost.


3 posted on 04/26/2007 4:46:40 PM PDT by Maelstorm (Brave men are not afraid to stand alone with the truth.)
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Bash Bush,,,,guaranteed free publicity for you book.

“Be the Toast of the Town!” “Make New Friends!” “Be Popular!” “Be on all the Morning Shows!”


4 posted on 04/26/2007 4:48:58 PM PDT by digger48
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the CIA director reportedly "rose up, threw his arms in the air [and said,] 'It's a slam dunk case.'" Tenet says it was a passing comment, made well after major decisions had already been made to mobilize the nation for war.

to have the president base his entire decision to go to war on such a remark

So, which is it?

Those two statements seem at odds, to me.

5 posted on 04/26/2007 4:49:57 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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I don’t understand why the Bush admin chose to throw Tenet overboard.

Considering he was a clintoon appointee, I don't understamd why the Bush Admin. chose to keep him.

6 posted on 04/26/2007 4:50:18 PM PDT by South40 (Amnesty for ILLEGALS Is A Slap In The Face To The USBP!!)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

What an assclown tenet is! Honor and reputation, indeed!


7 posted on 04/26/2007 4:51:04 PM PDT by 50mm (algore uses 20 times as much energy as me)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Tenet: I said it, but it was Bush’s fault for quoting me.


8 posted on 04/26/2007 4:51:39 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. -2 Cor 3:17)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Let me guess: Scott Pelley did this interview too.


9 posted on 04/26/2007 4:52:04 PM PDT by jdm
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To: 50mm

Bush had far too many idiot losers in his first term. Tenet is one of many.


10 posted on 04/26/2007 4:52:30 PM PDT by noname247
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BOO FRIKKIN HOO. He said SLAM DUNK, not the President or the Vice President. This is a fatal flaw of President Bush- he tries to reach out across party lines by keeping Tenet in place and he ultimately gets stabbed in the back. The Bob Bullock model doesn’t apply in cookie cutter fashion, Mr. President. He was the rare exception. Welcome to foggy bottom- again, and hey, and when is the administration going to force weak water Gonzalez to take action against Sandy Burglar, anyway??? EVER??!! You’ve run out of cheeks to turn Mr. President.


11 posted on 04/26/2007 4:53:00 PM PDT by TADSLOS (W.T. Sherman had it right.)
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Give him another medal and maybe hold a parade for him.

Did Bush look Tenet in the eyes too?


12 posted on 04/26/2007 4:53:21 PM PDT by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: noname247

If the President had fired him because he was a Clinton appointee he would be accused of doing it for “political reasons”.
Damned either way.


13 posted on 04/26/2007 4:54:37 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (STOP - Hildabeast, Shrillary, Hitlery, Billary, Her Thighness, Sen. Cankles, Dukakis-in-Drag)
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Was tenet asked how many documents of his were “retrieved” by sandy burglar?


14 posted on 04/26/2007 4:55:01 PM PDT by 50mm (algore uses 20 times as much energy as me)
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Hillary has already stated she’ll clear out the “Bush cronies” from the government, something Bush neglected to do when he took office and Gonzales is getting raked over the coals for doing...


15 posted on 04/26/2007 4:55:47 PM PDT by weegee (Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
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To: noname247

Bush is a gentleman. He was firing those guys, but he didn’t want to humiliate them. Unfortunately, there is no place for a gentleman in our age.


16 posted on 04/26/2007 4:56:15 PM PDT by stop_fascism
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So, who's going to win the "What I Meant To Say" war?

Tenet, Harry Reid, anybody else?

-PJ

17 posted on 04/26/2007 4:56:33 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (It's still not safe to vote Democrat.)
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To: toddlintown

It was compassion.


18 posted on 04/26/2007 4:57:47 PM PDT by conserv8ive1 (Rudy and the Bots...blasting off to oblivion.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

It’s now clear that Dubya’s biggest mistake was keeping Clinton holdovers.


19 posted on 04/26/2007 4:58:12 PM PDT by Tribune7 (A bleeding heart does nothing but ruin the carpet)
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This is what you get when you let incompetent people from the wrong side of the political divide hang around.

This man presided over the largest, most deadly intelligence failure in US History on 9/11. He then went on to screw up the intelligence on Iraq. Now, to escape blame for historic incompetency, he does what all Democrats do, blame Republicans in a book. All the while knowing the dishonest, disgraceful media in this country will help him in his mission. What a total POS this guy is. I hope he rots in Hell.


20 posted on 04/26/2007 4:58:48 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
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