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Posted on 01/17/2005 6:56:33 AM PST by pissant
It isn't likely to be a rosy path for incoming US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, as former CIA director George Tenet is likely to trash her achievements as the country's national security adviser in his memoir.
According to the Daily Mail, Tenet is of the categorical view that Rice was responsible for the terrorist strikes on the United States in September 2001, as she did not initiate enough protective steps to prevent those episodes.
"He (Tenet) claims she (Rice) was incompetent, that she didn't do her job" when it came to protecting the country from terrorists," the paper quotes a source as saying.
Tenet's book collaborator and former spokesman, Bill Harlow, denies that Tenet is putting the blame on Rice."The book proposal is confidential," says Harlow, the author of the military thriller "Circle William."
Tenet, who spent two weeks meeting with publishing-house editors, is also said to lay odds that Al Qaeda will strike next with a radioactive "dirty bomb."
"He says they're looking for a symbolic, high-value target - presumably in Washington or New York," says our source. "He says the terrorists' only difficulty is getting it into the country."
Robert Barnett, the lawyer who's shopping the proposal, also declined to discuss the book. But 12 houses are said to be vying for it. Bidding is said to have started at around a million dollars, though the word is that Tenet is hoping to get close to five million dollars. (ANI)
Valuable lesson to the Prez. Don't let Clinton appointee's anywhere near the reins of power. Please dump Mineta now.
Ms. Rice will spank him again and Georgie will just cry.
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Tenet is of the categorical view
Maybe I am a little dense this morning, but what is a categorical view?
History will not be kind to Tenet. Try as he will to spin otherwise, he dropped the ball repeatedly. Many thousands of lives were lost as a consequence.
Helll-OOOOOO.... the Bush administration had been on the job scant months when it happened... what a jackass.
Paul o'Neill wasn't a Clinton man and he sure was no friend. And how about David Kay - wasn't he suppose to be a friend of the administration? I guess its hard to know whom to trust and who might turn on you.
This the same CIA that totally missed India and Pakistan's development of nukes? The same CIA that completely underestimated the black market nuclear trade? The same Tenet who oversaw the CIA during the 1990s, when terror attack after terror attack went unanswered?
WTF did he think was going to happen?
Worth repeating.
A Catagorical View is what you have when your editor says he wants 500 words, and you can only think of 499.
He's another blame someone else guy. They can never take any responsibility for anything! Boo Hisssssss.
He's another blame someone else guy. They can never take any responsibility for anything! Boo Hisssssss.
I see he's wasting no time putting himself thru the spin cycle.
I hope he gets dizzy and barfs all over himself.
Good one. That song will probably be in my head for the rest of the day. Do you work on Madison Ave. NYC?
FMCDH(BITS)
Paul O'Neill was goofy, worthless, and relatively harmless. David Kay, OTOH, has amazed me with his flip-floppy opinions. Don't know if he was a dem mole trying to damage Bush, or if he just figured out what to say to stay in the spotlight.
Tenet - a CLINTOON appointee- says Condi is incompetant?? Wasn't he in a position to do something about Bin Laden for YEARS before Condi got to Washington?
Tenet is the incompetant one
oh- and the reason they are going after Condi is because a CONDI/??? ticket in 2008 would crush hilLIARy
This must be news to quite a few illegal immigration single issue freepers.
"Robert Barnett, the lawyer who's shopping the proposal, also declined to discuss the book."
Well, "Surprise, surprise!" He's using the Clinton's book agent. I guess this tells us as much as anything about whose pocket he is in.
This will probably be not-so-much about trashing Dr. Rice, but more about saving Clinton's sorry behind yet again.
Did they all take an oath of Muerta before they were allowed to be in that administration? What kind of spoils were they promised, in return for their souls????
Pinz
Bush hater wet dream.
I haven't been impressed by Rice but this claim is completely ridiculous. Is there another source for this other than "webindia"?
Here's two Britney views,
one's normal, the other is
categorical . . .
DING DING DING!!! we have a winner
DING DING DING!!! we have a winner
The 9/11 Commission has retroactively never existed in the public eye.
Soeaking of 9/11 COmmission reports, I doubt Tenet will blame Condi for 9/11. It would make him look anything but good.
It's very possible that Tenet is still stinging from
the criticisms he incurred....like these:
CNN June 4 2004 http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/03/tenet.resigns/
"Several key lawmakers -- including Sen. John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee -- have called for his resignation, and coming reports are expected to call for sweeping changes in the intelligence community.
Kerry released a statement saying he wished Tenet "the very best," but said the Bush administration has to take responsibility for "significant intelligence failures."
"Sometimes with change comes opportunity," Kerry said. "This is an opportunity for the president to lead. As I've said for some time, we must reshape our intelligence community for the 21st century and create a new position of director of national intelligence with real control of all intelligence personnel and budgets."
Sen. Richard Shelby, a former Intelligence Committee chairman, said Tenet's decision to step down as director of central intelligence was "long overdue."
"There were more failures of intelligence on his watch as director of the CIA than any other [director of Central Intelligence] in our history," Shelby, R-Alabama, said in a written statement. "I have long felt that, while an honorable man, he lacked the critical leadership necessary for our intelligence community to effectively operate, particularly in the post-9/11 world."
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"In journalist Bob Woodward's recent book, "Plan of Attack," Tenet is quoted telling Bush that intelligence supporting Iraq's weapons programs was a "slam-dunk." (Woodward: Tenet told Bush WMD case a 'slam dunk')
And Tenet sat behind Secretary of State Colin Powell during the secretary's February 2003 presentation to the U.N. Security Council, in which the United States accused Iraq of violating numerous U.N. resolutions requiring its disarmament.
Powell said last month that the sources of his allegations were "inaccurate and wrong and, in some cases, deliberately misleading. And for that I am disappointed, and I regret it."
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I guess George thinks passing the buck is going to sell
his book. Well, there are a lot of people who will buy
what he says about Condi. But the truth is out there.
Bad idea to have Clinton's lawyer shopping a book about the inner workings of the Bush foreign policy team. Yeah, I know all about that attorney/client confidentiality thing.
How did Kay 'turn' on the president? By honestly stating his group found no active WMD programs or weapon stockpiles?
Kaye was never considered a friend of the administration...where'd you get that, because the administration hired him? Nor did he make all the disparaging comments about the administration that the media wuould have you believe.
Read the Kay report. He says the opposite of what the media SAYS he said. The final report (pdf format) should frighten anyone with more than a few functional brain cells to rub together.
Tenents knife ...
Scootch over and make some room on that limb for me ;- )
"How did Kay 'turn' on the president? By honestly stating his group found no active WMD programs or weapon stockpiles?"
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No, by refusing to focus on the fact that Saddam sent WMD to Syria and into the sea. And by refusing to acknowledge the very real possibility that those mobile trailers could very easily have been chem weapons labs.
Wrong O'Neill, sorry. Also on a Swifties thread and getting confused.
Actually, he did not state that Saddam had no active WMD programs. He did say Saddam had no large stockpiles of WMD. He did NOT say that Saddam had NO WMD.
Lesson to us.....don't react to bull-oney printed in the media.
LOL! I'm scootchin'.
Tenet is writing a book? Gee, I distinctly remember he said he was leaving to spend more time with his family. I guess that was just one more inaccurate statement from the former DCI. Let's hope Goss keeps that broom sweeping hard.
Fact? Wishful thinking, perhaps even a plausible theory, but don't call it a fact. The trucks seen going to Syria could have just as easily contained Baathist officials and their personal loot.
And by refusing to acknowledge the very real possibility that those mobile trailers could very easily have been chem weapons labs.
The possibility wasn't very real. link.
Your link was to a NY Times Story on the subject. I prefer the Weekly World News for more accurate reporting. The trailers were completely scrubbed with a caustic chemical which left our guys unable to determine which chemicals were actaully being processed. How many times have you scrubbed your baloon machine with caustic chemicals?
Bingo. I think we actaully got 4 or 5 different versions of their use from our Iraqi prisoners.
Hopefully not learned too late.
Go here, to the Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq’s WMD--30 September 2004 Links to both PDF and HTML versions are provided in handy, Table of Contents format.
A preemptive strike by Tenet, hoping to shift the blame off of him and onto anyone else. Dr. Rice is a convenient target since the RATs are so skilled at character assassination and Dr. Rice is about to enter the hearing cycle. It Tenet publishes anything, it should be titled "I'm Sorry."
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