Posted on 05/01/2007 5:35:22 AM PDT by kellynla
"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own set of facts." That cardinal rule of the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan comes in for mention in George Tenet's memoir "At the Center of the Storm." An unusual kind of irony, then, that Mr. Tenet is now attempting to rehabilitate himself in official Washington, and so he must paint himself as a dissenter, a truth-teller, a man railroaded by the Bush administration. The memoirist's natural tendency to recount the most favorable train of events thus takes on its own momentum. In Mr. Tenet's case, this puts the man at war with large instances of known historical fact.
Here are some of the important ones. Most of Mr. Tenet's legacy boils to two episodes and the train of events surrounding each: September 11 and the Iraq war. Mr. Tenet served as CIA chief from 1997 to 2004, a period which sandwiches the worst intelligence failure since Pearl Harbor. He did not parachute into the intelligence world. He was a career Hill intelligence professional who, by many tellings, not only successfully navigated the bureaucracy but, once atop the CIA, mastered the art of budgetary politics as he finessed competing intelligence factions, the White House and the changing political leadership over two very different presidential administrations headed by Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. As intelligence chief over this period, and with a longevity bested only by Allen Dulles, Mr. Tenet is destined to bear some large part of this failure.
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Yep. One of the lesson’s future GOP President’s need to learn from the current administration is clean house upon entry.
Amen! That and all the Clinton US Attorneys.
11/2008 can’t come soon enough for me...
But then we would not have experienced that "new tone" thing. </TINK!>
Trying to be conciliatory with Democrats is a mistake.
Tenet, Burger, Mineta, Harriet Miers...
Who else?
Amen! You nailed it. All that was needed was a brief statement by Tony Snow that said "all US Attorneys work at the pleasure of the President."
Brownie, O’neill, Clarke...
Telnet Tenet
Tenet, Plame, Wilson simply add to the impression that the CIA is deeply flawed. Someone (Hayden?) needs to clean this stable. All I ask of the CIA is intellectual honesty, a modicum of competence and a huge dollop of discretion.
I get the feeling that there is a cultural breakdown at the CIA, that "findings" are rarely validated or crosschecked, that political score settling is paramount and everyone has a Washington Post or New York Times reporter on speed dial.
Perhaps. But it is highly unlikely that it would have prevented 9/11. Not impossible but very, very improbably.
There's virtually no one could have come into the CIA in Jan-Feb 2001, taken control of the organization and then made changes in time to effect a different outcome.
“But it is highly unlikely that it would have prevented 9/11?”
My position is that after the first WTC,
ALL foreign muzzies should have been deported.
Now I don’t know if that would have prevented 9/11 but it sure as hell would have cut down enormously the likelihood.
Zactly!
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AMEN!
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