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Tenet vs. Tenet ("Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own set of facts.")
The Washington Times ^ | May 1, 2007 | Editorial

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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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: cia; clintoncronies; iraqwar; revisionisthistory; tenet; tenetlied; wot
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Tenet should have been replaced with the rest of the Clintonistas when Bush came into office.
1 posted on 05/01/2007 5:35:26 AM PDT by kellynla
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2 posted on 05/01/2007 5:41:01 AM PDT by period end of story (Whole Lotta Love)
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To: kellynla

Yep. One of the lesson’s future GOP President’s need to learn from the current administration is clean house upon entry.


3 posted on 05/01/2007 5:43:26 AM PDT by Badeye (Yesterday was pretty good, today is shaping up nicely, and tomorrow anything is possible)
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To: kellynla

Amen! That and all the Clinton US Attorneys.


4 posted on 05/01/2007 5:54:24 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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What amazes me is the incompetence of this administration...
Instead of W coming out and saying...”Yes, I fired them...got a problem?” Instead, he tucks his tail between his legs and sends that clown Gonzales out to make a total arse of himself. When Clinton came into office, he fired ALL of the U.S. attorneys and not one peep was heard from the media or anywhere else!

11/2008 can’t come soon enough for me...

5 posted on 05/01/2007 6:01:43 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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Tenet should have been replaced with the rest of the Clintonistas when Bush came into office.

But then we would not have experienced that "new tone" thing. </TINK!>

6 posted on 05/01/2007 6:14:14 AM PDT by BufordP (Had Mexicans flown planes into the World Trade Center, Jorge Bush would have surrendered.)
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Situational facts are a liberal Tenet.
7 posted on 05/01/2007 6:14:25 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Rudy: fashionable fascism, one charade at a time.)
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To: kellynla

Trying to be conciliatory with Democrats is a mistake.


8 posted on 05/01/2007 6:21:08 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: kellynla

Tenet, Burger, Mineta, Harriet Miers...

Who else?


9 posted on 05/01/2007 6:35:49 AM PDT by Leisler
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To: kellynla
What amazes me is the incompetence of this administration... Instead of W coming out and saying...”Yes, I fired them...got a problem?” Instead, he tucks his tail between his legs and sends that clown Gonzales out to make a total arse of himself.

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."

10 posted on 05/01/2007 6:38:13 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
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To: Leisler

Brownie, O’neill, Clarke...


11 posted on 05/01/2007 6:48:40 AM PDT by period end of story (Whole Lotta Love)
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To: All

Telnet Tenet


12 posted on 05/01/2007 6:59:09 AM PDT by excalibur1701
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To: kellynla
Tenet should have been replaced with the rest of the Clintonistas when Bush came into office.

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.

13 posted on 05/01/2007 7:00:16 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ("We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.")
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Tenet should have been replaced with the rest of the Clintonistas when Bush came into office.

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.

14 posted on 05/01/2007 7:39:11 AM PDT by BFM (CLINTON is and always will be a rapist. Never forget!)
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I remember Bush was getting a lot of flack from folks like us (me) by keeping guys like him and Freeh and that SecTrans who wouldn't let pilots be armed.

When are we going to learn that people like this are an enemy to this country.

STRING 'EM ALL UP
15 posted on 05/01/2007 7:53:18 AM PDT by Live free or die
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“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.


16 posted on 05/01/2007 9:51:36 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: kellynla

Zactly!


17 posted on 05/01/2007 10:16:27 AM PDT by VaBthang4 ("He Who Watches Over Israel Will Neither Slumber Nor Sleep")
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To: potlatch; PhilDragoo; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP; dixiechick2000



 No Mr. Tenet!  -  I expected you to lie! 

 Shirley 
 Bassey 
    Anthony 
 Newley 





E I B


 El Rushbo 

18 posted on 05/01/2007 10:26:15 AM PDT by devolve ( -25%_the_little_fury_with_the_fringe_on_top_)
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To: potlatch; PhilDragoo; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP; dixiechick2000



 No Mr. Tenet!  -  I expected you to lie! 

 Shirley 
 Bassey 
    Anthony 
 Newley 





E I B


 El Rushbo 

19 posted on 05/01/2007 11:18:37 AM PDT by devolve ( -25%_the_little_fury_with_the_fringe_on_top_)
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To: Badeye

AMEN!


20 posted on 05/01/2007 11:55:01 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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