Posted on 06/03/2004 7:30:15 AM PDT by cyncooper
I'm in the badeye camp, he is resigning to head off the 9/11 commission report.
That's hogwash. If you pick the right replacement a nasty confirmation is EXACTLY what we want from the Dems. The CIA has a tarnished reputation and it tarnishes Bush. You need to remove that tarnish with someone bold and popular.
I don't think so either. In fact, Clinton didn't want to meet with him, Tenet was only able to see him a handful of times. 7 years as CIA head is a long time, he is probably just worn out, burned out. Its a pressure filled position in peace time, it must be completely nerve-racking during a war.
James Woolsey..former CIA director smiles alot when asked about that period.
Clearly..Clinton allowed certain individuals to burn James Woolsey down.[Those in the Pentagon and State Dept who had it in for him].
Their were rumblings from Congress on monies given to Chalabi's little band [Some 97 Million]...again..Clinton simply let them burn Woolsey at the stake.
January 1999 Foreign Affairs article that exposed the Iraqi National Congress (INC) by name, after its head, Ahmed Chalabi, a neo-conservative lunatic, told a U.S. Senate hearing in Spring 1998: "Give the Iraqi National Congress a base protected from Saddam's tanks, give us the temporary support we need to feed and house and care for the liberated population, and we will give you a free Iraq, an Iraq free of weapons of mass destruction, and a free-market Iraq. Best of all, the INC will do this all for free."
Foreign Affairs wrote, "The INC plan is so flawed and unrealistic that it would lead inexorably to a replay of the Bay of Pigs. U.S. officials would ultimately face the choice of intervening directly or watching the [INC] get butchered."
Matt Drudge commented on his Sunday broadcast 2 weeks ago..that he saw Richard Perle at a function in Washington,
said Perle looked like a man with a tortured soul.
Richard Perle stepped down from his position on the Defence policy board,
connected on the periphery of the Global Crossing scandal...Fibre optics..China...monies.
Add to this..his relationship with the tallking hand puppet known as Ahmed Chalabi.
Like Global Crossing....Chalabi will be the ruin of many.
It spins further..the advisory/implimentation track.
Some rather startling statements..like General Tommy Franks comments on Pentagon icon Douglas Feith.
Today..the obvious rift between Sate Dept and the Pentagon concerning Iraq...details unfold..film at 11:00.
Will all the fallout of Chalabi entangle Paul Wolfowitz?
Wolfowitz may have had a bad week when he appeared on the Hill recently...he certainly did not come off the Hill with a theme of confidence issuing from Republicans,
certainly ..an open door for Democrats to manuver.
James Woolsey has been an interesting read/interview of late,
James smiles alot..as mentioned earlier in my post.
Some of the adminstration and formers now in the spotlight..are his friends,
yet..he smiles..and remains silent after certain idents are posed to him in interviews.
Here's a guy who knows where,when and why..things went wrong concerning Iraq.
James is unlikely to do a Richard Clarke,...and he could,..with his accounts of how treacherous Emperor Clintonius was....how the CIA failed to learn from Clintons admin failures....stumbled on into the 90's.
Hope he writes a book someday down the road.
Screw McCain. Bush needs loyal people around him. Allowing McCain to head an important agency as the CIA is just asking for more problems.
Hey! Wait a minute! Don't you remember? Didn't you get the memo? Bush is stupid! Or an evil genius. That's what the media and the Dems. say. Bush is a stupid evil genius!
Seriously, I remember one time when Bush was on Texas gov. I met with a group of people he had picked to start and run a "faith based" prgram in the Texas prision system. These people were mostly Phd's. They all made it clear that Bush was a brilliant man and extremely organized. And that if they did not make the "milestones" Bush had in the project plans they were "toast". He'd replace them with someone that could get the job done.
A person only has to start with Ann Richards and go forward through all the people that Bush has either outsmarted, outwitted or basically beat the snot out of to see why the left hates him. Bush plays poker with one hand and chess with the other. They can't handle him.
2 things.
Chalabi wasn't really *our* guy. He was based in London and was the Brit's guy. No one here wanted to take responsibility for him, so it was decided to put him where the DOD could keep an eye on him. He went into Iraq with his own private army. We were under no illusions and Paul Bremer couldn't stand him whatsoever. Bremer actually might have been the Foster Brooks and probably took great pleasure in it.
Second. Let us remember that there were those biweekly meetings between Tenet and Gorelick that went on for some time. He might have been used for political purposes by the b*tch and the shat could be getting ready to hit the fin.
Did you catch the Ben Cohen (sp?) interview with Sean Hannity yesterday?
His book lets us all in on the secret that the lib "guerillas" choose internet names that sound like they're pro-Conservative so as to enhance the likelihood they will be accepted as conservative. Just "lying for the cause", he says...
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I smell a zot coming.
I forgot to say:
See: Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Davis' incompetence, the petition drive, and the recall was a mess to many. You bring in Arnold and all that dissolves. He's now superpopular as he "cleans house" in Sacramento. Do people care about the events before his election anymore? No, not at all. They are focused on Arnold's awesome job performance. That's what Bush needs-- someone to show voters that Bush is serious about having a CIA that functions at a high level and with a fresh start.
Uh, have you never wondered why we were blind-sided by 9-11...when you look at the FACT that George Tenet and Richard Clark NEVER once briefed GWB or Condoleeza Rice or Colin Powell about Al Queda's "Operation Bojinka"? The pubbies were either being set up...or it was lamentable incompetence on Tenet's and Clark's part. Either way...not good.
McCain would be a big mistake. Could anyone imagine Bush being advised on intel by McCain every day in the oval office? No way.
have it your way. keep whistling past the graveyard while the media installs Kerry as president.
W's effort to demonstrate a "new tone",
Exactly, and the new tone is exactly why the federal government is wasting an extra $600 billion a year. It's got to be one of the worst policies ever.
I've done an in forum review of your five posts. You have a problem with vulgarity and have added nothing to this forum by your use of it.
well, I gotta tell ya, I don't envy anyone who takes that job. Being director of intelligence is like being an old testament prophet, you're hated for crying "wolf!" all the time, dismissed if the warned about disasters don't happen, and tarred'n'feathered when the bad guys get through the defenses.
That being said, I offer my thanks to Mr. Tenet for staying at the helm during what must have been one of the darkest periods in our intel agency's history. In a recent speech at Georgetown U., Tenet made clear and direct reference to the fact that rebuilding the Agency assets from the gutting they took ten years ago would last at least another five years. He was there when our Congress under Clinton started cutting back on intel, when the "gorelick wall of shame" was put up, and I believe he stood in the fire to continue guiding the resurgence of the agency despite the near-certainty that he would take the most heat. He didn't didibop like Woolsley did, and though Woolsley had some incisive remarks about the previous administration intel failures, those remarks were made from the outside where they made little effect. Tenet hung in there - perhaps like a sailor manning the flooding pumps on a ship listing seriously to port, but he didn't abandon ship, even if the then-captain (clinton) was mad as a cockeyed goose.
There's a saying that some are men of destiny, and some are defined by destiny. Though we may not ever know it, I think that a CIA afflicted with a string of short-term directors-leaving because of conflicts with the administration would ultimately have been destroyed - just what the left and the likes of Kerry (who has said as much with his voting record) would have wanted. Well, it's easy to do your duty when you are flushed with success, good fortune and a smiling star; but standing in the den of wolves that seek to dismantle the national intelligence apparatus for which you are responsible??? - that certainly is one definition of doing one's duty.
Tenet stands in the latter category, but Stand He Did.
Thank you.
Pat Boone giving an interview on Linda Vester's Dayside.
He is saying that CBS's showing the Iraqi prison pix and the person(s) taking classifed information and broadcasting it is treasonous.
Good interview going on now. (FoxNews channel)
Move Ridge to CIA, backfill at Homeland Security with Zell Miller, and have the GOP governor of Georgia appoint the winner of the GOP primary to the Senate vacancy so that he runs as an incumbent in November for the full six year term.
Another side could be... maybe it is just that Tenet had told Bush of the book he had already written. The book explains what happened during the Clinton years.
By agreement they decide he (Tenet) should leave now to publish it.
Maybe too wishful thinking.... but wouldn't that be nice.
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