Tenet Does 60 Minutes [Necessary Read]

National Review Online ^ | April 30, 2007 | Andrew C. McCarthy

[middie]

I’ve known George Tenent for more than 30 years from my days in the Pentagon and work on the staff of the JCS intelligence and planning gang—a long way from the political generals who constituted the JCS. With the sole exception of a C.O. at Phang Rang whom I would, and did, follow into the jaws of hell in SEA (Operation Doom Pussy), George Tenent is the single most person with the highest degree of personal integrity and honesty in intelligence forecasting and analysis and dedication as well as fierce loyalty to serviving the USA his entire adult life. I would discount the views of anyone who would say the same about the VP, Wolfowitz or the White House inner circle.

[Gondring]

Here's the Kristol article referred to:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1825717/posts

[Recovering_Democrat]

bttt

[Tut]

I think in Tenet's shoes, I'd probably say a lot of the things Tenet said in that interview. I however took special care noticing how Scott Pelley conducted that interview.

MSM seems way too sanctimonious for my tastes given their history before the start of the Iraq war and how they are reporting it today.

Pelley should take a step back and take a long look at himself in the mirror before browbeating anyone. Then do something about that dishonesty of his.

I'm not for or against Tenet but I am dead set against our media with them being way up there on their high horse while they have such a shabby record. They have a LOT to answer for in my view.

[JoeGar]

Excellent piece of work.

[Nextrush]

This is the Tenet that Bill Clinton appointed at CIA, correct?

[metesky]

Interesting POV. So you’re skeptical that Tenent has been or could have been compromised by his association with the Clinton gang?

[patj]

George Tenent is the single most person with the highest degree of personal integrity and honesty in intelligence...

I don't know any of the people you mentioned, so I ask; how do you square what you said with the fabricated Perle story?

[browardchad]

I would discount the views of anyone who would say the same about the VP, Wolfowitz or the White House inner circle.

And you are, of course, personally acquainted with all of those, as well as Tenet?

[Cindy]

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[Cindy]

ping.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Interesting post.

[syriacus]

The issue is not rogue-state culpability for 9/11. After all, there’s no hard evidence that the Taliban was involved in 9/11. Yet we attacked and overthrew the Taliban — a military incursion even liberal Democrats say they supported — because the Taliban was aiding and abetting al Qaeda. No one contends that our rationale requires proof of direct Taliban involvement in 9/11.

Great point!! (Although we have to remember that Osama was appointed Commander-in-chief by the Taliban in Afghanistan shortly before 9/11)

[syriacus]

None of these fired clerks would be writing books had we left after we won

We went into Iraq because it was thought to threaten us. If we left immediately after removing Saddam (he wasn't captured immediately) do you think Iraq would have remained a non-threat?

[Lee'sGhost]

A Slam Dunk!

Bookmarked.

[kellynla]

Excellent piece. Thanks for posting it. Tenet and the rest of the clowns from the previous administration should have been replaced A.S.A.P.

I have contended all along that the day we captured Saddam was the day we essentially found the WMD.

[cgk]

PING...

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3. As Bill Kristol has pointed out, Tenet has apparently fabricated a September 12, 2001, meeting with Richard Perle at which Tenet insists Perle said Iraq had to be made to pay for 9/11. (Tenet: “[Perle] said to me, ‘Iraq has to pay a price for what happened yesterday, they bear responsibility.’ It’s September the 12th. I’ve got the manifest with me that tell [sic] me al Qaeda did this. Nothing in my head that says there is any Iraqi involvement in this in any way shape or form and I remember thinking to myself, as I’m about to go brief the president, ‘What the hell is he talking about?’” (Emphasis added).

Leaving aside that Perle denies Tenet’s account, the meeting Tenet vividly recounts could not have happened. Perle was not in the United States on September 12; he was stranded outside the country, unable to return due to the closure of U.S. airspace. Keep that in mind: When Tenet recalls standing there with the manifest in his hand about to brief the president the day after the shocking 9/11 attacks, and then being thrown for a loop by Richard Perle (translation: rabid neocons) raving about Iraq, that never happened.

[tillacum]

Mission Accomplished was for the sailors who had just accomplished their mission at sea. The phrase had NOTHING to do with the mission being accomplished in Iraq.

[tillacum]

It is frustrating when lie after lie is told about this administration and NOT one word from the administration to debunk the lie. Not one word from the elected Republicans to debunk the lies.

[Osage Orange]

""Mission Accomplished was for the sailors who had just accomplished their mission at sea. The phrase had NOTHING to do with the mission being accomplished in Iraq.""

SB...read this again...if you haven't already.