““I shot a look at other members of my staff in the meeting,” Mr. Tenet writes in his newly published memoir. “It was clear that none of us knew what he was talking about. The Italian quickly changed the subject.””
It sounds like Tenet plays a lousy game of poker... how this guy was overseeing the spy agencies is beyond me.
Well .. Tenent thought he could get his 15 minutes of fame if he ripped the WH apart.
It’s what all the RINO’s do .. please the media and get lots of press. SICK!
“Italian intelligence” Now there is an oxtmoron for you.
Maybe Tenet was really remembering a lot about his days with the Clintons. I would say that would be normalatleast for the dimwits for him to blame it on Bush.
“I never could understand why GWB kept Tenet in the first place.”
The “New Tone” rears it’s ugly hand again. Let’s see Richard Clarke, numerous State and Justice Department, CIA and FBI guys, etc, etc, etc.
Memo to the next GOP President, especially one that MIGHT have to take over after a Hillary Clinton adminsitration:
You fire (or ask for the resignationa) of everyone and anyone that was appointed by that women. You leave one trace of that crowd in your adminstration, they will come back and bite you in the ass.
Dumbheller has proved himself to be a worthless nitwit, and frighteningly ignorant for the man who rose head the CIA’s European operations, but as a mindless lib he is just the person to be embraced by Charlie Rose.
Tenet is very probably the only public official dumber than Governor Richardson. I’m talkin’ major league stupid with these two. Is anyone surprised he would write a CYA book bashing Dubya? He should have been gone from central intelligence two minutes after Dubya took the oath of office. But, this is what you get for playing nice.
No one ever accused George Tenet of being smart.
“Politics is not a bad profession.
If you succeed there are many
rewards, if you disgrace yourself
you can always write a book.”
Ronald W. Reagan
Bush’s WEAKEST LINKS were Tenet and Powell.
Uneasy Alliance Is Taming One Insurgent Bastion
Uneasy Alliance Is Taming One Insurgent Bastion
Army Officer Accuses Generals of 'Intellectual and Moral Failures' This link to the thread of the WaPo post will open on a link to "A failure in generalship" by Lt. Col. Paul Yingling, the actual article under discussion. It's an interesting analysis with some unorthodox recommendations. I'll be surprised if we don't hear about this guy with a musical surname again, either as a general or talking head.
From time to time, I’ll ping on noteworthy articles about politics, foreign and military affairs. FReepmail me if you want on or off my list.
A no show on the job, a ho show for the media.
btt
In January 2002, George J. Tenet, the man who oversaw all American spy agencies, was asked by a visiting Italian intelligence official what he knew about United States officials making contact with exiled Iranian opposition figures.
“I shot a look at other members of my staff in the meeting,” Mr. Tenet writes in his newly published memoir. “It was clear that none of us knew what he was talking about.
Road Map for Moderate Network Building in the Muslim World (long read)
RAND Corp. ^ | Angel Rabasa, Cheryl Benard, Lowell H. Schwartz, Peter Sickle
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1818382/posts
Posted on 04/16/2007 6:09:23 PM CDT by Valin
Identifying Key Partners and Audiences
A critical part of U.S. network-building efforts, as well as in its broader public diplomacy and strategic communications policy, is identifying key partners and audiences. Difficulties in distinguishing potential allies from adversaries present a major problem to Western governments and organizations attempting to organize support for moderate Muslims. Work done by the RAND Corporation—in Cheryl Benard’s Civil Democratic Islam and Angel Rabasa et al., The Muslim World After 9/11—has begun to lay the framework for identifying ideological tendencies in the Muslim world,1 which is necessary in order to identify the sectors with which the United States and its allies can be most e.ective in promoting democracy and stability to counter the in.uence of extremist and violent groups.
Around the world Muslims differ substantially not only in their religious views, but also in their political and social orientation, including their conceptions of government; their views on the primacy of shari’a (Islamic law) versus other sources of law; their views on human rights, especially the rights of women and religious minorities; and whether they support, justify, or tolerate violence perpetrated in advancement of a political or religious agenda. We refer to these as “marker issues,” and the position of groups or individuals on them allows for a more precise classifcation of these groups in terms of their a.nity for democracy and pluralism.
(snip)
When it comes to key appointments in his administration, I’m sorry to say it, but Bush is a total fool.
He is a nice man, well intentioned, very sound on some of the basic issues, but a political novice. You have to wonder about his advisers as well, to let him make such basic mistakes.
The FBI is just as bad as the CIA, and he has done NOTHING to fix that. Or the Justice Department. Or most other agencies, including that global warming freak who heads his science dept.