Posted on 04/29/2007 7:50:59 PM PDT by Kaslin
(CBS)s director of the CIA, George Tenet has kept America's most important secrets. And until now, his lips were sealed.
Tenet's CIA has been blamed for failing to stop 9/11, praised for the fall of the Taliban, and vilified for predicting that Iraq held chemical and biological weapons.
Now, three years after leaving the CIA, Tenet has written a book, aptly named, "At the Center of the Storm." This month, correspondent Scott Pelley sat down with Tenet. 60 Minutes wanted to know how he got "weapons of mass destruction" wrong. Are we using torture in the war on terror? And who was it at the White House who finally put the knife in his back?
60 Minutes found him passionate, combative, apologetic, defiant, and fiercely loyal to the people of the CIA and their fight against terrorism.
"People don't understand us, you know, they think we're a bunch of faceless bureaucrats with no feelings, no families, no sense of what it’s like to be passionate about running these bastards down. There was nobody else in this government that felt what we felt before or after 9/11. Of course, after 9/11, everybody had that feeling. Nobody felt like we felt on that day. This was personal," Tenet tells Pelley.
His story erupts after a silence of three years. 60 Minutes spoke with Tenet at Georgetown University.
In a sense, his career began and ended there. He's a professor now, but he first came as a student from Queens, New York. After college, he worked on Capitol Hill and in the Clinton White House, rising to lead the CIA at the age of 44. Tenet served seven years, all that time hunting Osama bin Laden.
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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.
Guy sounds like a cry baby.
George couldn’t do what the Free Clinic does every day, stop leaks.
Tenet should have been fired on 9/12.
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I thought it was funnier than heck that CBS was trying to make points that was already settled.
Points like what Bush said in those 16 words in that state of the union speech. *laughing* They didn’t say that it was already decided that Saddam’s people was actually looking for yellow cake in Niger.
CBS, as usual screwed the pooch. They must enjoy that pooch!
Another rat deserts what he’s been propagandized into thnking is a sinking ship....
George Tenet's Imaginary Encounter... With Richard Perle
Some of his "facts" do not seem to be too factual!
The bulb burns dimly.
“Another rat deserts what he’s been propagandized into thnking is a sinking ship....”
You said it.
Tenet’s Foul Shot
IBD Editorials ^ | 29 April 2007 | Staff
Posted on 04/29/2007 1:29:53 PM EDT by Kitten Festival
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War on Terror: Whatever ex-CIA chief George Tenet’s book says he meant by “slam dunk” regarding pre-Iraq War intelligence, there always were lots of good reasons to oust Saddam Hussein and to finish the job today.
In the nearly 550 pages of Tenet’s “At the Center of the Storm,” there’s no shortage of bitter complaints from the intelligence chief on whose watch 9/11 took place. He says the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward distorted and took out of context the phrase that has come to define Tenet.
While conceding the CIA believed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction before the 2003 U.S. invasion, Tenet says that wasn’t what he was referring to by “slam dunk.” No, he was talking about putting “a better case together for a public case,” he writes.
Despite the media fuss, what he really meant isn’t important.
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LOL!!!
Actually, he never should have been hired. Tenet was a Democrat hangover from the Clinton regime. Now he’s written a book that revises history and seeks to blame others and exonerate himself from responsibility for the greatest intelligence failure in recent American history. This is what Bush gets for his “reaching out” policy!
I have to say that I was watching the MSM news last night for the first time in years and they were pretty balanced in covering it.
Agreed. Bush will be well-served in history by taking the high road. He gives people the benefit of the doubt and assumes they will have integrity. Tenet sure proved Bush was right to replace him. He is turning out to be a self-absorbed, opportunist whiner. Hope his book bombs.
This guy is less than impressive. You meet with the President every week and you have grave concerns about the war in Iraq and you don’t say something? Mind-boggling.
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