Posted on 04/30/2007 3:33:00 PM PDT by RWR8189
It's difficult to see why George Tenet would be so incautious as to write his own self-justifying apologia, let alone give it the portentous title At the Center of the Storm. There is already a perfectly good pro-Tenet book written by a man who knows how to employ the overworked term storm. Bob Woodward's 2002 effort, Bush at War, was, in many of its aspects, almost dictated by George Tenet. How do we know this? Well, Tenet is described on the opening page as "a hefty, outgoing son of Greek immigrants," which means that he talked to Woodward on background. Further compliments are showered upon him. We discover that his main protector on Capitol Hill, Sen. David Boren, who represented Oklahoma until 1994, had implored President-elect Bush to retain this Clinton-era head of the CIA and if he had any doubts, to "ask your father":
When the younger Bush did, the former President George H.W. Bush said: "From what I hear, he's a good fellow," one of the highest accolades in the Bush family lexicon. Tenet … later led the effort to rename CIA headquarters for Bush, himself a former DCI.
No need to draw a very complex picture here: Tenet knows how the kiss-up and kiss-down game is played. And, for a rather mediocre man, he did well enough out of the arrangement while it lasted. Woodward was even willing to describe him as one who "had developed an understanding of the importance of human intelligence, HUMINT in spycraft." But let's not get ahead of ourselves. I only mean to say that it was a very favorably disposed chronicler who wrote this, in describing Tenet's reaction on the terrible morning of Sept. 11, 2001:
(Excerpt) Read more at politics.slate.msn.com ...
If this article is even 50% true then Tenet is a sanctimonious a—hole.
Slam! Bam! Take that, Tenet!
Other than his publishers and the idiots at the major networks, is anyone taking Tenet’s new book seriously?
I have always assumed that Tenet was a slimy clintonoid backstabber, but maybe he’s an idiot too. Hitchens makes a good case for it.
Hitch nails it as usual.
Slate - only slightly to the left of moveon.org.
Nobody slices, dices, guts and skins like Hitch does.....
Now THAT was a slam dunk!
How many holdover Clintonista have hurt or impeded this administration.
I thought that said “Disgraceful New Bo*bs.”
Darn these bifocals ...
The real question should be, Why did President Bush keep around all the babosos appointed by President Clinton when he took office?
At the C.I.A., F.B.I., Justice Dept., And at all the embassies around the world?
Along with every stupid position in Govt. held by these assclowns beholding to Democrats and or president Clinton?
They have been the ones stabbing Bush in the back at his every
move.
Hell, Clinton asked for every prosecutors resignation upon his arrival. Why Didn’t Bush? Thus alleviating any possible thought of impropriety?
I agree, but keep in mind...even though Hitchens is well known Soviet-Lover and all that goes along with it, he is, and has been spot on about Iraq from Day One.
I used to have complete disdain for him, but after I heard him slice, dissect and dismember George Galloway in a debate on this very subject, I can at least look at that side of him and appreciate it.
Granted, Galloway is a clown, idiot, moron and every other malediction I would be able to think of...but one with a blabbering mouth and is loved by the lefties and the press.
President Bush really believed that bipartisan thing. He thought he could make it work, he really did. It was the way he ostensibly operated as Governor of Texas.
As we all know now, it was a major mistake, blunder and miscalculation.
He should never have even tried it.
Treating Liberals in a bipartisan way is like negotiating with Arabs. They see it as weakness, and seize on it and treat is as such.
The left has been giddy about Tenet’s book coming out thinking that they’ll have the goods on Bush at last. It was suppose to be a tell all book.
As it turned out, Tenet’s book no way met their expectations and if anything, messed up their case that Bush lied. Tenet himself thought for sure Iraq had WMDs. Tenet had high praises for their interrogation methods as well which, I am sure ticked off a few left-wing loons.
None of that was what the left was looking for. Hence Slates personal attacks.
Well.... I still think Saddam had WMDs at least up till the end of 2002. A CIA guy on Fox and Friends this morning said the same thing.
From all I’ve heard, it was a CYA book and in Tenet’s position, I think I would do the same. And getting $4 million for it would make it even more fun to write....
“Hell, Clinton asked for every prosecutors resignation upon his arrival. Why Didn’t Bush?”
Cause the Clintons are tough and have gonads and Bush wants a new tone.
Where’s all the hoopla about the book coming out that exposes Hillary’s lies on her background. Has not been mentioned except on Fox.
Tenet—the most shameful hypocritical a-hole to ever work in government.
A disgrace to his (and my) ethnic background.
Malaka!
The 64,000 dollar question:
” So, the only really interesting question is why the president did not fire this vain and useless person on the very first day of the war. Instead, he awarded him a Presidential Medal of Freedom! “
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