I theorize it a little differently: Bush is supporting Cheney; Tenet is taking an arrow for Cheney because Cheney has already been stuck repeatedly over his Halliburton connections.
"The buck stops here", but Tenet is the one putting his hand up. It was Cheney who pursued the uranium-sale angle and bought the story nevertheless when his investigator had warned him off and the people at CIA and State didn't want to sign off on it.
Both Bush and Tenet are covering for Cheney.
Makes you wonder who is really calling the shots, and whether the GOP hasn't quietly inverted some political roles behind the scenes, so that leadership of the Party and Administration really comes from Cheney's office. If so, that would mean the Administration has made Cheney a sort-of prime minister and head-of-government in the political sphere, if not in the constitutional sphere. But I'm just thinking out loud.
I've read something in this regard, to the effect that it was actually Cheney who ordered the CIA to investigate, and then the CIA sent Wilson. Is that what you're referring to?
It was Cheney who pursued the uranium-sale angle and bought the story nevertheless when his investigator had warned him off and the people at CIA and State didn't want to sign off on it.Mind if I ask you to pull the string on this one a little bit? Trace back where this comes from- that Cheney pursued it and that his investigator warned him off.
Was the source of this information Scheer? Was it Wilson? Was it someone directly related to not just liberal but far-left political movements?
Wrong. There is no evidence any investigator (former Gore aide Wilson) warned Cheney off.
And I repeat yet again that the uranium sale angle has not been debunked.