Posted on 04/26/2007 6:24:24 PM PDT by FreedomPoster
If that’s his explanation, then I don’t see why he’s not apologizing for not making himself clear. Doesn’t seem like it’s the Bush Administration’s fault.
What a sniveling weasel.
You are far too kind.
George Tenet, ex-CIA Director - can’t believe the President took HIS opinion on Iraqi intention and led our nation to war - and now George expects us to weep with him over HIS ruined reputation? Cry me a river!
Anyone got a small violin?
The DUers have been saying for days that Tenet was going to claim he never said “Slam Dunk” and have taken it to mean that Tenet would claim that Cheney and Bush invented all the evidence.
Now he’s saying that the CIA did think Hussein had WMDs.
Guess they’ll claim that Tenet sold out.
It seems to me the MSM/DBM have been obsessed with the “slam dunk” comment, not the Bush administration.
Kerry has been helping him with the nuance issues getting ready for the book.
I wonder if this little gem will actually make it into th 60 minutes broadcast?
He meant a "slam dunk" case could be made to the public that Sadaam had WMD.
Can anyone tell me the significant difference?
Well, I forgot to mention that he is a backstabbing double-crossing self-serving blowhard. Bush has been nothing but kind to him, praising him at every turn, giving him the medal of freedom. And the SOB sicked the BS Valerie Plame thing on him as his private confidential thank you note, and now has vented his vain and pompous spleen in this score-settling self portrait of himself as selfless hero who did no wrong, and can’t accept responsibility for the obvious boners he did commit.
Total crock, total poseur revealing himself unworthy of the position he held.
I mentioned on an earlier thread that the only reason 60 Minutes (one of the BS Channels), is that somewhere he bashes the Bush Administration and by extension, Donald Rumsfeld, and/or Dick Cheney.
No way would 60 Minutes EVER have anyone on from the Bush Administration unless he/she bashed President Bush!
That has been my impression from day one!
Thank you for saying what was on my mind.
Only you said it better.
Tenet is the poster boy for why you should never accept the previous administration’s key players. Their loyalty is suspect.
The new tone that Bush hoped for was wasted on little men such as the Dems and Tenet.
From Jay Garner blaming Bremer to Colin Powell's people knocking Cheney's people to Tenet's begging-off of responsibility to military personnel's ceaseless complaints against Rumsfeld, it was a 576-page blame game. On that theme, the gist of Tenet's claims here were recited in Denial.
But however important Tenet was to the president's decision, the fact is that, as the CIA director, he absolutely assured the president of the United States that a dangerous, America-hating dictator had WMD. And he had the misfortune to do it memorably.
I expect nothing less from a Clinton appointee.
He was a useful idiot. By uttering “It’s a slam dunk”, and being a Clintoon appointee, he gives Bush/Cheney a CIA get out of jail free card in the upcoming impeachment trials. By cooking the intel, Tenet is responsible for misleading the Congress and the nation, not Bush/Cheney.
Well said.
Tenet’s book as well as the Woodward book, are cuationary tales by people who blame others. You’ll notice that Condi never spoke with anyone.
Be Seeng You,
Chris
This is such utter BS I can smell it through the my broadband.
That the "CIA thought he did" IS a slamdunk in regards to whether they gave Bush a rational basis to move forward on pressing Iraq to comply and then eventually ending the 12-year ceasefire and recommencing military action. Of course WMD was not the only reason - numerous violations/ignoring of various provisions from the original ceasefire over twelve years was more than enough to justify action and Tenet admits as much.
Tenet is playing a semantical game where he knows W can't counter by producing notes of the meetings without comprimising national secrets and at the same time diminishing executive privilege. If the case to made to the public was a slamdunk then the judgement of the actual intelligence should obviously match. Otherwise Tenet is essentially saying - "We've got a slam dunk public case that the actual intelligence doesn't verify."
What a pathetic person.
He didn’t “cook” the intel—It was consistent with the intel reports from around the world. But his complaint is stupid. And he was a rotten director of a corrupt, failing agency.
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