Posted on 04/29/2007 6:40:23 PM PDT by Valin
SCOTT SHANE REPORTED in Saturday's New York Times that former CIA chief George Tenet's dramatic description in his book, At the Center of the Storm, of an August 2002 presentation at the CIA by defense undersecretary Douglas Feith and his staff, is at the very least misleading. In order to suggest that Feith's staff was utterly out of its depth, Tenet characterized the main briefer, Tina Shelton, as a "naval reservist." In fact, she had been a Defense Intelligence Agency analyst for almost two decades. Tenet also claimed that Shelton said in her presentation of Iraq-al Qaeda contacts, "It is an open-and-shut case." Shelton and Feith both deny she said that. One person who served in government with Shelton told THE WEEKLY STANDARD today he finds it "inconceivable" that Shelton, an experienced analyst, would have made such an unequivocal assertion.
THE WEEKLY STANDARD has now learned of a second, more stunning error in Tenet's book (which is due to appear in bookstores tomorrow). According to Michiko Kakutani's review in Saturday's Times,
On the day after 9/11, he [Tenet] adds, he ran into Richard Perle, a leading neoconservative and the head of the Defense Policy Board, coming out of the White House. He says Mr. Perle turned to him and said: "Iraq has to pay a price for what happened yesterday. They bear responsibility." Here's the problem: Richard Perle was in France on that day, unable to fly back after September 11. In fact Perle did not return to the United State until September 15. Did Tenet perhaps merely get the date of this encounter wrong? Well, the quote Tenet ascribes to Perle hinges on the encounter taking place September 12: "Iraq has to pay a price for what happened yesterday." And Perle in any case categorically denies to THE WEEKLY STANDARD ever having said any such thing to Tenet, while coming out of the White House or anywhere else.
According to Kakutani, Tenet concludes by paraphrasing Daniel Patrick Moynihan's comment: "Policymakers are entitled to their own opinions--but not to their own set of facts." How many other facts has George Tenet invented?
No the pubbies play Wiffleball.
You, me, and I imagine many other people watching. The guy's tone and demeanor was defensive and borderline hysterical right from the first moments of the interview, which is very strange for someone who's there primarily to flack a book.
I found it hard to believe about 90% of what the guy was putting forth. History will definitely regard him for exactly what he was: an ass-covering failure and a loser.
<GWB’s first and biggest mistake. Not cleaning house immediately upon taking office.<
DING DING DING DING! Give that little lady a big Teddy bear!
that's better.
You can say many things about George Tenet, stupid is not one of them.
He could have stayed neutral. He didn’t. He was actively supportive.
Nope, wouldn’t have worked, neutrality is not an option with this issue. Heck did you see the “educational” program groups who advocate for this issue are using to indoctrinate children? High ranking officials in the school system are demanding teachers promote this issue, not asking them or saying ‘its your option to do so’ nope they are demanding that they do. Listen to the response one teacher is given when she is trying to state in a polite way ‘well some of these kids were raised in their family and religious environment to believe its wrong...do we tell them that they were taught wrong by the people closest to their personal lives?, i.e. mom and dad’ or something to that effect:
http://www.massresistance.org/media/video/brainwashing.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1825825/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1827644/posts
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