TPMtv Guide: Monday, May 7
Ladies and gentlemen, we give you the former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Much like last Thursday’s, today’s episode is another TPMtv Newsreel. This one is a montage of George Tenet’s interview with Tim Russert on yesterday’s Meet the Press. We spliced it together with some clips of speeches by President Bush during the march to war in Iraq. The opening sequence is from an October 7, 2002 speech in Cincinnati, Ohio – a previous draft of which included Niger/uranium language that was specifically expunged on the command of George Tenet and his deputies… only to reappear in the President’s 2003 State of the Union address a few months later. The second series of clips you’ll see is from the President’s Address to the Nation on March 17, 2003, in which he gives Saddam Hussein 48 hours to leave Iraq or face military conflict. And the last clip we show you is, of course, from the 2003 State of the Union address.
I'd say hang Tenet by the balls but I guess we would have to settle for the thumbs. What a bunch of crap. I wonder if he lies just to increase the sales of the book. "I didn't read it or listen to the State of the Union address", maybe no one listened and we all imagined it. I would have to guess he was Silly Putty in Cheney's hands.
May 7, 2007 9:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
It makes me SICK that these lying f*cks are making money off of the lives and treasury of this once-great nation! And they'll continue to make money writing more bullsh*t books and accepting huge speaking fees down the road.
While I respect the process that Congress must go through to get to the grounds for impeachment, and the tension mounts like a good old Hitchcock movie, I wake up each morning hoping that today will be the day we begin to see justice for these despicable acts.
PEACE
May 7, 2007 9:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
George Tenet is just as much a war criminal as are George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
Tenet seems to be (in the style of Robert Mcnamara) trying to cover his butt.
You don't have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.
May 7, 2007 10:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
Remind me again why Tenet was awarded the Congressional Medal of Freedom?
May 7, 2007 10:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
Profiles in Courage, 2007 version.
May 7, 2007 10:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
On May 7, 2007 - 1:23pm global yokel said:
"Remind me again why Tenet was awarded the Congressional Medal of Freedom?"
The Bush administration was hoping Tenet would keep his mouth shut.
You don't have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.
May 7, 2007 10:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
Although I'm glad to see us holding government officials such as Tenet to some standards, everyone should remember that Bush and Cheney would have pursued their agenda with or without him. He's no profile in courage, but he isn't the major culprit.
May 7, 2007 11:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wow, I just realized something: Bush said that the world would be safer as soon as Saddam was out of power! This totally undercuts our current reasons for staying in Iraq. The new reason being that Al Qaeda would have a safe haven to plan attacks. But the reason for going into Iraq was to break up the possibility of them obtaining weapons of mass destruction from Iraq. So in Bush's brain, Al Qaeda didn't have the potential of doing this on their own, they needed a corrupt and functioning State. If we leave Iraq, there will not be weapons development any time soon.
May 7, 2007 12:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm not gonna worry about someone blowing smoke. Tenet is day old toast. However, I will say that perhaps his book has something to add to the cesspool that may shed light on what went on. As I said, Tenet doesn't count anymore except in the history books.
May 7, 2007 12:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nothing more than a politico, complying, lying bureaucrat. His excuses and lame reasoning for FAILING to do his job make him gutless. Make him a hero? Jesus Christ he should be on trial for lying to the public through surrogates. There is enough culpability to get them all before the Haig Court. He and Powell most of all could have put some restraint on these people by speaking forcefully before the decision or quitting and telling the country the WMD of Iraq was bullshit. The chemical mobile labs was just a fu*king cartoon. The aluminum tubes could just as easy be used for downspouts and were not sufficient for centrifuges. Bush wouldn't know a centrifuge from a stick shift. The relationship between Saddam and Al Qaeda was bullshit. Curveball was bullshit. The Niger Report was a forgery! Wilson's report was the TRUTH!!! The Downing Street Memo proved they were bullsh*tting about all of it! They should be charged with accessory to murder for every death in Iraq. None of them would have occured is we had stayed in Afghanistan and finished the job. The toy soldier in the White House should have been satisfied with getting the ONE person that would have satisfied the country for 9/11. If he had he wouldn't be able to bring it up to deflect everything from Katrina to SS reform. What a fu*ked up mess he has the country in. He has been bailed out of so much failure before he expected to be bailed out again. It will take getting this assh*le out of the Presidency before it happens. Either by impeachment or election.
May 7, 2007 12:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nellieh - Don't hold back :-)
May 7, 2007 1:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nice montage.
Funny how I can get this calibre of excellent journalism off the internet but I tune in to Scarborough Country and he has 3 talking heads debating/discussing Paris Hilton's jail sentence. Oh, and tomorrow Larry King is going to have Howie Mandel on.
And to think we make fun of Fox News.
God save us.
May 7, 2007 7:28 PM | Reply | Permalink