Hear! Hear!

George, time to make amends by joining the anti-war and impeachment movements after you return your medal.

Tom

"We write to you on the occasion of the release of your book, At the Center of the Storm. You are on the record complaining about the “damage to your reputation”. In our view the damage to your reputation is inconsequential compared to the harm your actions have caused for the U.S. soldiers engaged in combat in Iraq and the national security of the United States."

Excellent comment.

Let's not pick on Georgie-Porgie. He's just one careerist among thousands sucking at the teat of the military and intelligence industries loved and admired in our soon-to-be-forgotten republic.

J. McCutchen

Give the royalties to the wounded and the survivors of the dead.

The more I read of what's in this book, the more disgusted I become.

From the Washington Post

A perennial problem, he writes, was a tendency by intelligence analysts to assume other people thought like they did.(!!!!) When judging whether Hussein was lying when he said Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, "we did not account for . . . the mind set never to show weakness in a very dangerous neighborhood." One of the "lowest moments of my seven-year tenure," Tenet recalls, was when a congressman told him in a public hearing in the spring of 2004 that "we depended on you, and you let us down."

Crying all the way to the bank

David Corn

........Tenet may feel--as he claims--damn lousy about the screwed-up National Intelligence Estimate that helped pave the way to war in Iraq. But he did not feel bad enough to resign--or to disclose earlier what had gone wrong. He sat on the story and now is peddling it for personal profit.....if Tenet indeed believed before the invasion of Iraq that Bush and Cheney were pushing the nation to war without adequately assessing the threat or assessing options other than full-scale war, he had an obligation at the time to make that known--at least to members of Congress, if not the public at large. He did not do so. Consequently, he owes the public a full accounting and an apology--not a sales campaign.

Yes Ellen. But this is the careerist who deserves to have his body dragged through the streets and hung from a bridge - not in Fallujah, but in Louisville. Along with Generals Abizaid & Franks.

Oh, please, please.

Can't I have Myers and Sanchez, too. Oh, and Michael "Constitution? Never heard of it" Hayden, and Miller of Guantanamo and Abu Graib fame, and William "My God is bigger than his" Boykin. I'd add the Joint "Come out, come out, wherever you are" Chiefs, but no one's seen them since the war began.

Isn’t there a law that someone who commits murder cannot then profit from it by writing a book about it? Seems the intent of this law if not the letter of this law applies to Tenet.

What I suggest is that disabled veterans and families of those soldiers who have died in Iraq bring a civil "wrongful death" suit against Tenet and others who participated in bringing on this fiasco. While immunity may protect such people in the end, the publicity of such a suit and the legal costs thereof might reduce the profit Tenet, Bremer, Franks, etc have made because of their parts in this war.

The thought of Tenet and others getting rich off the blood of our soldiers is an insult to America and frankly, evil.

It's too bad the analysts, if LJ and his friends are any measure, don't run the Directorate of Operations. If so we could be rid of Bush/Cheney and cohorts. It has never bothered the right wing to to use black ops to achieve their domestic political ends. I'd also like to hear the mockingbirds sing a message more consistent with the above letter.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

William James

George Tenet and Colin Powell will go down in infamy.

The blowback on Tenet's book has already begun. After '60 Minutes' he may get run out of town.

Does Tenet reveal, in his "tell" all book, whether he sent Wilson's report on Niger to Dick Cheney? Chris Matthews asked Tenet about that, and he answered "Ask Cheney".

If Cheney ignored that report - that's the smoking gun for impeachment, imho!

Keep your eye out for a guy named Michael Scheuer, ex CIA and head of the Bin Ladin Desk for a number of years during the 90s.
he left the CIA in 2005. This guy already wrote an op ed condemning Tenet, BUT.....

I first saw this guy Scheuer on C-SPAN's Washington Journal about 18 months ago and I was very impressed. He seemd quite knowledgeable on Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and al Qaeda. He gave what I saw as objective analysis on terrorism, 9/11, Iraq etc. It was a good informative C-SPAN session.

By the way, he wasn't real happy with the Bush White House and IRAQ. Then...

I didn't see him for a bit, but then he recently turned up at a Senate hearing on Terrorism and Iraq and lo and behold, he was now a right winger, condemning Clinton, Democrats, etc.

He turned up again on Washington Journal about 8/10 days ago and again he spewed the right wing mantra; Clinton, Democrats, blah blah blah.

He's now with The Jamestown Foundation, a conservative think tank. He may have saw the light; there's money to be made if you join the right wing noise machine.

CNN just reported Scheuer said to Tenet; (paraphrase) 'Go back where you belong, to the Democrats.

I'm posting this to alert people to this guy because he's getting some air time in this Tenet story.

J. McCutchen

George Tenet, Drama Queen

Reminds me of that other CIA 007 blowhard, Cofer Black

All the better though, for now we know that Richard Clarke told the truth and CRice fiddled, blundered us into 9/11; that George Bush is a liar, and Cheney an indictable war criminal

Gee I never knew this

Sorry Larry, I had to watch. I like to watch

Tenet was interviewed on 60 Minutes, and it was not pretty.

About missing clues on 9/11: somehow, he did not mention Richard Clarke. But here Tenet was most plausible.

After 9/11, "we did not torture": he could try to make the case that CIA tortured in very exceptional cases, and took measures to minimize the inherent cruelty of the process. Probably, there is no such case to make.

Planning war with Iraq: here Tenet was at his most convoluted. He knew that Iraq had zero connection with al-Qaeda, did he ever stress that point to Bush and Cheney? He said that at the numerous "principals' meetings" no one ever questioned if this war should be waged, the only discussions were when and how. Now, Tenet was one of the very few principals (one of six?). So he is very much responsible for this sad fact.

The case of Saddam's WMD: Tenet honestly believed in the entire bunk that Powell, in fron of him, told UN. Mind you, after months of futile inspections, inspections that took input from CIA. And this bunk included quite bogus analysis of satelite photos, bogus interpretations of intercepted telephone calls, (were the debunked aluminum pipes spinned once more), plus conclusions from the testimony of Iraqi defectors for which CIA had testimony of other defectors claiming totally different things.

Interviewer asked some "difficult questions", even repeated them, but he did not deign to make a meaningful follow up. Why inspections did not alter the intelligence assesment? Why CIA condoned a massacre of thousands of prisoners in northern Afghanistan? Whose idea was it to have a "ligh footprint" in Afghanistan (reason given by Tenet for the failure at Bora-Bora). Why was he silent before elections of 2004 and 2006?

Tenet believed it, yet my 9th and 10th grade students in World Affairs Club in 2002-03 could see right through Powell's BS by reading the European press online. Sorry, George, I don't buy it no matter how much you whined on Sixty Minutes.

Tom

What I'm still waiting for more clarity on is the supposed meeting between intelligence chief from Italy, Gen. Nicolo Pollari and Stephen Hadley, which supposedly presented the debunked Niger claims directly to the VP even though the CIA had debumked them.

Larry, do you know much about the Niger embassy breakin? Anything that has been officialy announced? I know that there was a breakin and papers suddenly appeared around this time.

LJ,

There is something missing on your letter, although I must say it is an excellent letter. Your letter did not include all the damages that Tenet had caused to the people around the world. Many countries are terrified by threats from America to join in the fights against terrorism and Innocent civilians are injected with imaginary fears of the Muslims around the world.

Reportedly, innocent civilians were kidnapped and tortured in Germany, Spain and Italy and God knows how many innocent civilians that were kidnapped, tortured and not reported. America also intimidates countries to keep their own citizens (Muslim sympathizers) on the watch list. Just because civilians simply did not agree with America’s imperialist attitude towards other nations, they were being labeled as terrorists or terrorist sympathizers and were closely watched by the secret services of their own countries.

Christian missionaries from America were making headway in Iraq under Saddam Hussein’s regime, all of a sudden, all Christians become a target the Muslim. Now, Christians around the world are blamed for something that Tenet had created. God has given America wealth and power and yet America has turned around to commit atrocities in other countries under the pretext of fighting terrorism. May God have mercy on the soul of Tenet and ask him to stop spreading irreversible fear around the world. God did not create this world so that America has an upper hand over the rest of the world. God creates the world so that everyone can live in harmony with diversities in culture and language and life style. God has not asked America to impose American values on other countries.

Katrina is God’s way of expressing his anger over the merciless killing in Iraq by the American soldiers. The late Pope John Paul II had asked America not to attack Iraq. Despite repeated pleads from the late Pope John Paul II and foreign leaders, America proceeded with atrocities and showed no mercy. Tenet’s actions and inactions have caused much grief to many families both within America and around the world. It is about time that Tenet confesses to the world and seeks repentance from God. Only God can save him. Only God can teach him the real meaning of forgiveness and only God can forgive his sin. Money, status and power can only give Tenet that much, once his power is gone, Tenet is nothing but a fool. The same also applies to GW Bush and D Cheney and C Rice and those who hold power in high office.

I understand the CIA getting the story about WMD wrong. It was not until December, 2002, according to Cobra II, that Saddem informed his generals that they did not have the biological and chemical weapons they thought. However, given the nature of the NIEs, estimates not certainties, why didn't Tenet urge Bush continue letting the U.N. inspectors continue their worker rather than an invaion before either Afghanistan was more secure, Bin Laden captured or killed and the armor and other equip necessary for Iraq was ready?

Another question raised by Cobra II is why didn't the CIA get virtually anything about Iraq correct? The military went in and found most conditions other than they expected.

Daniel A. Greenbaum

From what I understand, the UN weapons inspectors were given information on the locations of WMD by the Bush gang a number of times and every time the inspectors went to the location they found nothing.