Posted on 09/25/2001 3:32:32 PM PDT by laureldrive
EDITORIAL • September 25, 2001
Where was George Tenet?
Since the horrific events of Sept. 11, nearly everyone in Washington seems to have reached the obvious conclusion that U.S. intelligence agencies in general and the CIA in particular are failing to recruit human intelligence sources to penetrate hostile governments and terrorist groups. The congressional demagoguery and micromanaging that have crippled the CIA's ability to do its job began back in the 1970s, well before the current director, George Tenet, assumed the post. Nonetheless, Mr. Tenet certainly must shoulder much of the blame for the intelligence failure of Sept. 11 – as well as a host of other intelligence failures and poor policy decisions that took place during the Clinton era.
In 1995, Mr. Tenet was appointed deputy director of the CIA. The new CIA director was John Deutch, an MIT-trained physicist who took the CIA job reluctantly after President Clinton decided not to appoint him secretary of defense. In March of 1995, then-Rep. Robert Torricelli called a sensationalistic press conference, charging that the CIA had trained a Guatemalan colonel who was complicit in the murder of a communist guerrilla in that country. In response, Mr. Deutch fired the chief of the Latin American division, Terry R. Ward. (Mr. Clinton's own Intelligence Oversight Board later found that Mr. Torricelli's charges were false.) Mr. Deutch then proceeded to implement the recommendations of Human Rights Watch, which included purging the CIA payroll of anyone deemed to be linked to "human rights abuses." This resulted in the loss of hundreds, if not thousands, of valuable CIA agents around the world.
After Mr. Deutch was forced out of office in 1996, he was replaced by Mr. Tenet. While many CIA agents praise Mr. Tenet for his professionalism and good intentions, they fault him for failing to use his leadership and solid political connections to get rid of the damaging Deutch regulations. The CIAcontinued to require agents to get special permission from senior agency officials if they wanted to recruit unsavory characters to provide intelligence information on folks like Osama bin Laden. (This discouraged agents from working for the CIA.) Mr. Tenet's failure to reverse the Deutch regulations almost certainly increased the likelihood of the calamitous intelligence failure Americans witnessed Sept. 11.
Unfortunately, when it comes to Mr. Tenet's flawed judgement and leadership, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Mr. Tenet helped oversee what columnist Jim Hoagland of The Washington Post aptly termed the Clinton administration's $110 million "covert debacle," a failed effort to overthrow Saddam Hussein. When Warren Marik, a former CIA officer who had worked on the ill-fated project, spoke about this policy failure, Mr. Tenet asked the Justice Department to determine if Mr. Marik had violated his confidentiality agreement with the agency. "Imagine Tenet as the owner of the Titanic who greets news of the luxury liner's sinking by ordering an investigation of the radio operator who sent out the distress signals, and you get the picture," Mr. Hoagland wrote.
--- J. Michael Waller reports in this week's Insight Magazine that, "A current CIAmanager [says] that intelligence professionals are forced to attend sensitivity-training classes and do role-playing skits to conform to politically correct social themes." Another CIAofficial complains of spending "countless thousands of hours" making "politically correct diversity quilts."
There have been other problems with Mr. Tenet's performance. The CIA failed to predict India's 1998 testing of a nuclear bomb. In 1999, the accidental bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was blamed on a faulty CIA map. Mr. Tenet also aggressively pushed for the CIA's involvement as a go-between for Israeli and Palestinian security officials in an effort to halt terrorism and implement the 1998 peace agreement between the two sides. The subsequent upsurge in suicide bombings and other acts of Palestinian terrorism show that this policy has been a huge failure. And Mr. Tenet did not exactly engender confidence by moving so lethargically to revoke the security clearance of Mr. Deutch after it was discovered that the disgraced ex-director was downloading classified information onto non-secure personal computers.
In short, it's time for Mr. Tenet to bow out gracefully. If he refuses, President Bush should fire him.
Kinda makes a NJ guy proud!
With the deballing, feminization, gayization, and pcing of the CIA and Former Bureau of Investigation, I would bet that a large percent of CIA people could not spell C I A after the last 8 years. The % of hate America/Americans in the agency probably double the good guys/gals!
The guys being made to make diversity quilts were probably the last real men left in the agency. These quilting bees were just harrassment to drive them out of the agency!
After this is over and Benny Laden's head has been feed to the pigs to clean it up, we will hear horror stories about the CIA, FBI and the justice department after 8 years under X42, Hilldebeast, and the senators like Kennedy and the Torch! Barney from Boston helped to deball the agency! Only God knows what Condidit did to the CIA and our other agencies!
It is time to reactive some old CIA boars who hate the enemies of America and let them root out the haters of America inside the agency! I would suggest that the various dark siders who make up the different colors of the Diversity Quilt to run and leave the country before you are outed! Hansen will not be the only double agent! A lot of you will go to jail for life or worse!
"So why doesn't W fire Tenet?"
The attack on 911 was a major intellience failure.......and nobody's to blame.......let's just move on.
I'm sick of it, and scared by the thought that our military will have to lay their lives on the line in faraway places that I cannot even pronounce!
We do it by continually exposing the idiocy. Look at how people are finally reconsidering "racial profiling". If all 19 of the terriorists were Arabs/Moslems does it make sense to look at female WASPS? We've got to take every opportunity to refute this multi-cultural garbage.
Would you like to bet that Tenet is doing anything besides quilting now! He was fired the second that first plane went into the WTC! When this is over, he will announce that he wants to spend more time with his family! He is probably the most advoided and lonely clymer in the agency!
When this is over or has died down, GW will say nice things about Tenet while appointing a few old Boars to go in and Bore out the maggots who have infested the agency for the last 8 years!
However, the anti America/American influence is not new in the agency. Reagan had tremendous problems with them whenever he tried to battle communism. This battle with them and the left wingers in the senate set up many confrontations like Iran/Contra! The commy lovers were thick in the agency before and after Reagan!
Recognize and call it what is: A plan to strip whites in America of pride in themselves and their heritage. Refuse to participate in any "diversity" training. If forced by your employer to do so, disrupt the "training" class as best you can. Challenge all their assertions. If you have children in government schools, pull them out if you can. If enough people will stop being sheep, "multiculturalism" will fail.
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