[advance_copy]

George Tenet was a disaster for the CIA. I wish President Bush would have fired Tenet in January 2001.

[P-40]

Did Tenet talk about having no ‘boots on the ground’ collecting intelligence in Iraq and Afghanistan? Or about having near-zero speakers of Arabic? The 9/11 Commission Report had nothing good to say about that.

[Diogenesis]

That Tenet invokes Novak (daughter wrote Kerry’s speeches,
and who during the last election personally leaked Palmegate
for Kerry) has very bad implications and reeks of impropriety.

[Brilliant]

The biggest scandal is the fact that we are now in the 6th year after 911, and Congress still has not reformed the CIA to eliminate the 1970’s era restrictions that have hampered the War on Terror. Those restrictions led not only to 911, but also to the Iraq War.

[ASA Vet]

MI Ping

Sorry folks, I know the CIA isn't a real intelligence outfit, but since some think so, I guess this is related to our list. ;-))

[Badeye]

“George Tenet and, more important, our premier intelligence organization managed to find weapons of mass destruction that did not exist while failing to find links to terrorists that did — all while missing completely the rise of Islamist fundamentalism. We have made only a down payment on the price of that failure.”

I have yet in my lifetime to hear of a CIA ‘success’ beyond leaks to the New York Times and the Washington Post. That another former member of the CIA is lying publicly should not surprise anyone.

Its my belief we would be better leveling the Langley facility, fire every last employee of CIA, and buy a ‘Magic Eightball’ to replace it all.

[Tarpon]

Good reason to have the CIA spy on climate change.

[Suzy Quzy]

Why the hell didn’t Perle write this on MONDAY!!!! We are always way too SLOW in getting facts out.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Just one of W’s string of bad mistakes since first taking office. Memo to the next Republican president (if there is one); CLEAN HOUSE !

[Alberta's Child]

But I was in Europe on Sept. 12, 2001, unable to get a return flight to Washington, and I did not tell Tenet that Iraq was responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks, not then, not ever. That should have been the end of the story: a faulty recollection, perhaps attributing to me something he may have heard elsewhere, an honest mistake.

Richard Perle is one of the most disgraceful A-holes ever to set foot inside the U.S. Department of Defense. I have no idea if he is telling the truth on this one, but Tenet's recollection of what transpired is perfectly in character with Perle.

Remember, this was the moron who called on the Clinton administration to topple Saddam Hussein back in 2000 in response to the attack on the USS Cole -- even though there wasn't a single shred of evidence linking Iraq to that attack.

[Democratshavenobrains]

Why doesn’t Perle stop his bellyaching and SUE THE JERK for false statement or libel or whatever the technical term is? No one is going to care if he writes a million editorials about it.

[PsyOp]

George Tenet was a disaster for the CIA. I wish President Bush would have fired Tenet in January 2001.

Along with all those Clinton appointed US attorneys.

[jackieaxe]

I wish one thing that Colin Powell told the UN about Iraq was true. George Tenet is a disaster and as a taxpayer who knows the general public cannot see what the CIA does, I hope we are now doing better, though I am not hopeful.

[bvw]

We do not need a CIA. It is like running a marathon in leg-irons.