Posted on 04/26/2007 6:24:24 PM PDT by FreedomPoster
Do you have a source for that assertion? I have a hard time believing that Libby and Rove drafted it. Edited it, perhaps. I am sure it was cleared by the WH before he published it.
"Mr. Tenet hints at some score-settling in the book. He describes in particular the extraordinary tension between him and Condoleezza Rice, then national security adviser, and her deputy, Stephen J. Hadley, in internal debate over how the president came to say erroneously in his 2003 State of the Union address that Iraq was seeking uranium in Africa."
He describes an episode in 2003, shortly after he issued a statement taking partial responsibility for that error. He said he was invited over for a Sunday afternoon, back-patio lemonade by Colin L. Powell, then secretary of state. Mr. Powell described what Mr. Tenet called “a lively debate” on Air Force One a few days before about whether the White House should continue to support Mr. Tenet as C.I.A. director.
“In the end, the president said yes, and said so publicly,” Mr. Tenet wrote. “But Colin let me know that other officials, particularly the vice president, had quite another view.”
He writes that the controversy over who was to blame for the State of the Union error was the beginning of the end of his tenure. After the finger-pointing between the White House and the C.I.A., he wrote, “My relationship with the administration was forever changed.”
Yep. What you said.
The question is begged: Why did Bush and his cohorts in the administration —especially such sophisticated gents and Chaney and Rumsfeld —allow this grossly incompetent holdover from the Clinton administration to stay on ?
I submit, “W” is an inordinately lousy judge of character — and grossly naive in many aspects of real-politik. (And, I am a strong supporter of the current administration). But, Putin, Merkel, Gonzales, Powell...and a few others come to mind.
Pretty bad judgment calls, ladies and gentlemen.
He meant a “slam dunk” case could be made to the public that Sadaam had WMD.
Can anyone tell me the significant difference?
Five Years
If Bush had asked for Tenet’s resignation, along with the top 50 bureaucrats at the CIA at noon on September 12, 2001, his administration would be in a significantly better position now and it would have rewarded FAILURE appropriately.
A weasel, who should NEVER have been given a job by Dubya. Give Klintoon credit, he only employed tried and true democRATS in positions of trust and fired every Republican in sight ASAP. A lesson in realpolitik that our little frat boy has never learned.
So many of these folks can’t accept the reality of 9/11. They all want to hang on to the last century like we are still living in it. Very sad, not the State of the Union, but the State of Delusion, that is like a gas rising from the Washington swamp. I think many of them got into government, not for what they could do for the country, but what they could get out of the country. When real work needed to be done after 9/11, its like their fantasy life was shattered back into reality, and they don’t like having to do real work.
Nice repayment for the Medal of Freedom. Loser.
“I expect nothing less from a Clinton appointee.”
Exactly, I bet him speaking out can all be traced back to the Hillary08Machine, I wouldn’t doubt it if Tenet gets hired again by Clinton’s.
‘George Tenet, ex-CIA Director - can’t believe the President took HIS opinion on Iraqi intention and led our nation to war...”
George Tenet suppose to give opinions to the President. He’s the head of his department. He should know what is going on but he didn’t.
It was the Clinton Administration who decided to launch Desert Fox in 1998. We had no human intelligence on the ground after that fiasco because Saddam thought all UN inspectors to be CIA agents spying on his Regime.....for nearly five years we had no clue what was going on with Saddam’s WMD program.
What do you want the President to do? Be a mind reader?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.