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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Tenet tries to blame Cheney

Tenet has a book coming out so he has to offer something that will make it in the press.
But Mr. Tenet largely endorses the view of administration critics that Mr. Cheney and a handful of Pentagon officials, including Paul D. Wolfowitz and Douglas J. Feith, were focused on Iraq as a threat in late 2001 and 2002 even as Mr. Tenet and the C.I.A. concentrated mostly on Al Qaeda.

Mr. Tenet describes helping to kill a planned speech by Mr. Cheney on the eve of the invasion because its claims of links between Al Qaeda and Iraq went “way beyond what the intelligence shows.”


But he talks all sweet about George Bush, "a kindred spirit."

I guess a Medal of Freedom does buy you something.

posted by mikevotes at 8:21 PM

6 Comments:

  • The defining moment of the whole fiasco for me will always be that clip of Tenet and Negroponte sitting behind Powell listening to the lies they fed him.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:27 PM  

  • When both of them knew of the lies.

    They both had to know that the Niger forgeries and the aluminum tubes were lies as Powell was talking about them.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 1:52 PM  

  • I'm sorry. You don't get to wait until you have no authority to change things before you find your back bone. Tenent makes a lot of noise about Cheney ruining his good name... but Tenent pissed on his won character when he refused to aggressively counter accusations and assertions in real time.... not years later.

    His honesty and forthrightness will be helpful in congressional investigations, and it may help him restore some of his reputation, but until he dedicates himself to righting the wrongs he passively let pass he can just quit the "poor me" parade.

    By Blogger -epm, at 2:39 PM  

  • This is definitely an effort to cleanse his reputation and sell books.

    This has very little to do with what's right.

    I wouldn't expect him to significantly help the investigations because he has done enough wrong in his tenure that he really doesn't want to start that battle with the White House.

    All he's trying to do is burnish his reputation and gain some distance before Iraq goes belly up.

    Or maybe I'm just a cynic.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 3:12 PM  

  • I'm with you on this... Listening to Tenent it's painfully clear it's all about him. In the snippets I've heard he hasn't shown an ounce of concern for the countless dead, the squandered international goodwill, and the dark, dark course down which his own inaction has helped to this country.

    As far as I'm concerned, he can just curl up with his Medal of Freedom and cry himself to sleep.

    By Blogger -epm, at 6:48 PM  

  • Yeah, this is not about truth, redemption or making it right.

    This is about trying to clear his name and moving paper.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 9:36 PM  

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